Celebrating 50 Years of Email
Email turns 50 this year! But if the history of email tells us anything, it’s that email isn’t going away any time soon. The history of email goes all the way back to early mainframe systems that included the ability to communicate with similar computer systems. But in 1971, software engineer Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” symbol to route electronic mail between different computers within the ARPANET system, a forerunner of the world wide web. Today, 50 years after Tomlinson introduced the @ symbol to