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The First E-mail on the Internet In 1971, the first e-mail was typed into the Teletype terminal connected to the Digital Equipment PDP-10 in the rear of the picture below. The message was transmitted via ARPAnet, the progenitor of the Internet, to the PDP-10 in front. Dan Murphy, a Digital engineer, took this photo in the Bolt, Beranek and Newman datacenter. See ARPAnet.
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Could They Have Imagined Spam?
When they sent this first message in 1971, could they ever have imagined the billions of e-mails that would follow in the years to come? (Image courtesy of Dan Murphy, www.opost.com/dlm)
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