E-mail: 30th Anniversary
The 30-Year Path of E-Mail
nytimes.com
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a relatively simple computer program that enabled electronic messages to travel from one computer to another.
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Posted to Computers • 2001.12.07 (Fri) • 10:07
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