First E-mail:

The first email that was sent: How did it start?

The first email (electronic mail) was sent 40 years ago and nowadays is still
one of the most important ways of communication, personally and
professionally, expressing itself in a strong and firm way.
Raymond Tomlinson was the person who sent the first email in 1971,
through the ARPANET (considered the mother of the internet). Supposedly
he sent the message QWERTYUIOP with an application called SNDMSG
(send message) that allowed to exchange text messages between users that
were connected to ARPANET.
Tomlinson actually doesnt remember several facts about the first email he
sent. He is only sure that he sent the email in ALL CAPS. The format
(user@domain) was also created by Ray, where the @ means at and it
states that the user is in a specific place.
Was the first email marketing campaign the first SPAM?
Gary Thuerk had the idea to send the first email to a group of people
(around 400 people). In this email, he tried to sell a new computer. Thuerk
started one of the most important marketing channels email marketing.
Nevertheless, he also became famous for being the first person to
send SPAM.
In the year 1996, hotmail, stylized as HotmaiL, allowed any person to
create a personal account and access the email from every place in the
world, even if you did not own a computer.
It is hard to believe that the email is still alive. New technologies are
developed on a daily basis creating new forms of communication. In the
meantime, the email is still seen as a potential communicator, due to the
fact that is already considered a digital identity, strictly necessary to log in
or register in any website around the world.