E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam - Times Online

technology.timesonline.co.uk — at around 7pm one autumn evening in 1971, the first message using Mr Tomlinson's fledgling software, known then as the 'Send Message Program', travelled the short distance of a metre from one computer to a neighbouring machine, and electronic mail was born. Mar 11, 2008 View in Crawl 4