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jan 1, 1971 - Ray Tomlinson invented email

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Ray Tomlinson invented a program that lets people send mail electronically-email! He chose the @ symbol for email addresses because it means "at." Over the years, programmers invented email programs to reply and forward messages, attach files, and more

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jan 1, 1971
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~ 54 years ago