5 Interesting Facts About E-Mail

E-Mail or Electronic Mail is one of the media used to send and send letters using internet network intermediaries. In this modern age, we can send letters easily and safely, without any obstacles by using email. However, do you know the interesting facts about emails? If not, let's look at 5 facts about the email below!

1. Raymond S. Tomlinson, is the person behind the development of email. The man who was born on October 2, 1941 created the first ARPANET email application in late 1971. At the beginning of his experiment, he tried to send a message from two adjacent computers. Then the contents of the first email message is "QWERTYUIOP".

2. The selection of @ symbols in emails is an idea of ​​Tomlinson. He said the idea refers to English. In English, the @ symbol is used to indicate the unit price. For example 10 items @ 2 USD, then it means 10 items for 2 USD.

3. Hotmail is not a genuine creation of Microsoft. The email service from Hotmail was first launched in July 1996 and then purchased by Microsoft in 1997 for 400 million USD. The inventors of Hotmail themselves are two people named Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.

4. Gmail which is the largest email service in the world currently launched by Google in 2004. And, Gmail is also known as an email service with a very large storage capacity.

5. Spam is the most sent email in the world. And, from the latest data the Asian region is the region that generates the most spam email. While the country known as the largest spam email producer is India

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Source: beritateknologi