Would the first ever email get delivered today?

Latest posts | Feed | By Mark Brownlow on March 17, 2008

You may be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee, the man who "invented" the World Wide Web. But have you heard of Ray Tomlinson?

He invented network email.

And this article reveals that the first ever email message was "...QWERTY, or another meaningless set of letters produced swiping one's hand across the top of the computer keyboard."

Not sure that would make it through spam filters today.

According to his own account, he invented email because "...it seemed like a neat idea." Indeed.

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