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During this decade the foundational circuitry would be laid paving the path for the internet as we know it today. Many of the major and influential players in the technology landscape, like Microsoft and Apple, also go their start in the ’s.In ARPANET was improved by yet another technology – email messages. A member of the BBN Company Roy Tomlinson implemented a program that allowed users to send email messages across the ARPANET distributed network. At the beginning, the whole program was actually a combination of two programs.
CPYNET a file transfer softwareSENDMSG intra-machine email software Source: WikipediaThat same India Mobile Databaseyear, Gutenberg. The goal was to make various resources and works available electronically for free. The US Declaration of Independence is the first piece of information available. Source: Wikipedia PeopleRay Tomlinson – born in in Amsterdam, New York. He was one of the pioneering computer programmers. His greatest achievement is the implementation of an email system on ARPANET.
That’s what let him earn the title “inventor of email”. Tomlinson died in . Source: Wikipedia Michael Hart – born in in Tacoma, Washington. He is best known for his life work, “Project Gutenberg”, and as the inventor of e-books. He populated ARPANET with free books and other resources to make them available to everyone. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & companies Email program – the first ever email program was designed to work on PDP- computers. It was a combination of two programs.
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