The first email
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent his first email. He doesn't even remember the content himself, probably QWERTYUIOP or similar keyboard letters.
@Who invented the symbol
It is the @ symbol chosen by Tomlinson to separate username and hostname. No one has used this symbol before. Currently, 100 billion emails are sent globally every day using the @ he has chosen.
The earliest email address
The earliest email was internal to ARPANET and could only be sent to people on the same network. Later, there was Internet mail. The @ was followed by the domain name. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, web mailboxes, only emerged in the 1990s.
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