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The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. The beginning of unread inboxes everywhere.

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Tomlinson’s 1971 work on ARPANET is credited with popularizing network email and the “@” addressing convention. Email later scaled globally to billions of users, becoming a core internet service.

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