All About Email Addresses Email today is among the most common
forms of communication. It feels as though everybody uses email
these days, and use it quite frequently. While some people
receive only a message or two every week, others will send and
receive thousands within that same time. Email got started back
in 1968, at a business called Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).
This company was hired by the Department of Defense to create
what was, at the time, called ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network), which was later to be known as the
Internet. ARPANET was to be used for communications among
military and educational institutions. Engineer Ray Tomlinson
was assigned to a project in 1971, which had two main parts:
SNDMSG and READMAIL. SNDMSG was the first form of electronic
mail. It had already existed for several years and was an
exceptionally primitive way for users of the same machine to
send messages to one another. Text files could be created and
delivered to inboxes on the same machine. It co