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- rewen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69probably the inventor of email.
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53Some guy from Nigeria who needed to get his money out of government holding.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -29/+72AL GORE!
- mattsidesinger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40And who sent the first "Internet" in an e-mail?
- Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+39I don't know who sent the first, but I just sent the last e-mail.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Who sent the first email? I don't know but I bet it was someone who had a great deal to re-mortgage your house, car, or anything else you're paying for. Or someone who had a great deal on prescriptions from Canada, or knew how you could make your penis or breasts bigger.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Why do people always post stuff like that?
"431 diggs, and only 78 comments, and front paged?!?!?!?!"
Seriously, It JUST is. Things get front-paged PURELY by magic and lasers. You can not EVER comprehend the power of the magic OR the lasers, so it is not for you to know how this got to the front page. - martin77, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17odds on that it was a spammer flogging viagra.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I'm betting some guy at CERN.
- taylorscott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Ray Tomlinson speaks:
http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
This is a better article, straight from the horses mouth. - FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Sorta brings up an interesting question...who was the first naked woman posted on the internet?
- JohnyD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Dude.... why the ***** are you posting here if you don't care?
Or maybe you were just asking it as a rhetorical question... which would again be pointless as the digg community probably does not want to digg down 1000 posts of "I care" and "I don't care". - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19I'm still waiting for mine, my secretary said she sent it 2 weeks ago. I'm guessing by now it's just on the wrong dump truck or going down the wrong tube.
- soxos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Here's an article about who sent the first spam. It was a DEC salesman, if you don't already know. http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
I'm more interested in who sent the first internets and why it took so long for Senator Stevens to receive it. - Claymore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8and what was in the email? the modern day equivalent to: "Watson, come here. I need you."
- Claymore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8from wikipedia all I see is:
"Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the names of the user and their machine in 1971"
The other side you reference has:
Did you send the first network email?
As far as I know, yes. However, there are a few qualifications. Network should be included because there were many earlier instances of email within a single machine.
Hardly conclusive... - fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow. A piece of history. Great find. !!
its important to know these small folks who did such wonders years ago so we can do the things so easily that we take for granted. Hurrah for Ray Tomlinson. - ryanfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7LOL DUGG for the comic at the bottom
- nightsweat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Did you send him pee-mail?
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -1/+7isn't that illegal - who would put pictures of naked people online. what has the world come to
Signed: Grandpa, 1993 - lmarburg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7QWERTYUIOP such an inspiring message
- giveer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Who_sent_the_first_e_mail
That didn't take long. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Service Temporarily Unavailable? didn't know that was a valid email address
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html (nasty frames, we hates them).
Also documented in the book "Nerds 2.01". - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Strangely enough, I happened to pee in the urinal next to Ray Tomlinson today at work.
- ryanfelix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9http://www.duggmirror.com
edit: got beat like a little girl by qiveer... thumbs down for me.. - Avian00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ted Stevens!
And it just arrived! Dang those TUBES!! - badogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you are the first to send it, who would be the recipient? :)
So if a message popped up on someones machine, they must have been like "What the hell?" - reyitocazador, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is one impatient author...
FTA:
"But I’ll start with the beginning."
One sentence and 27 words later...
"To skip to the point, the first message was sent by Ray Tomlinson..." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Well, the ones that just want to know. I don't really think it's that relevant nowadays, the important thing is the point were we have all reached regarding the electronic communication.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not really, to be honest. You're about 10 years out.
"He was actually playing around with two programs called SNDMSG and READMAIL that allowed users to leave messages to each other on the same machine."
Bearing in mind that this was a time when "the same machine" would commonly have several terminals and there was already messaging software that would send messages between users...
Also bear in mind that Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of all demos" in 1968 demonstrated email publically, 3 years before Tomlinsons messing around with message software (along with the first public demonstrations of the mouse, the GUI, video conferencing, hypertext, the paper paradigm and pretty much everything that we take for granted in computers today.) - drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or, who will send the last email... muahahahahahaha
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow. I like the response from the Army (?) Major chastising the guy for doing so.
- taylorscott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think you mean:
Mistakes others make about the history of email, according to Ray Tomlinson. - Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -2/+413 days old... give up
- edgecurve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Found it. Thanks to Google I was able to find an exact text of the first email:
"I am CHIEF(DR.)BODE GEORGE., Chairman to the Contract Review Panel that
was recently inaugurated by the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria to review the activities of past military government with
particular reference to contracts awarded by all ministries between
1990 to 1999. In the course of carrying out our assigned duties, we
discovered the sum of USD40.5 (forty million, five hundred thousand
dollars) only lying idle in a suspense account with our apex bank. This
funds emanated from grossly over-invoiced contracts awarded to
conglomerate of foreign firms by the Petroleum Ministry on behalf of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. On completion of our
assignment, this amount was deliberately not included in our report
because we want to capitalize on this once in a lifetime opportunity to
benefit and make a fortune out of it. The only option we have to
achieve our aims and objective is to have this fund transferred to a
country of our choice where it can be kept in trust and safe custody
for us. We are however handicapped at the moment by our status as civil
servants, which barred us from operating foreign accounts while still
in government service.
Thus, through some discreet inquiries from our Chambers of Commerce,
you and your organization were revealed as being quite astute in
private entrepreneurship. On this premise, we have no doubt in your
ability to handle a business of this nature, which informed our desire
and wish to enter into a partnership with you. This business involves
the remittance of this amount into your bank account with the hope of
travelling down to meet you physically in order to receive our share.
We hope to invest some in profitable ventures in your country based on
your advise while the balance will be repatriated home as foreign
earnings. We have mapped out strategies and all paperwork is in place
to ensure a 100% success.
The nature of your business at present does not really matter because
in the world over, bigger firms do bid for big contracts especially in
third world countries like ours and can subcontract part of it to other
firms for execution. That is you or your firm will be regarded as one
of those that executed one of such projects and therefore entitled to
receive the over-invoiced amount of the contract value since the
original contractor has been paid. Be rest assured that this
transaction is 100% risk free as there is actually no risk is involved
either now or in the future for we are well connected in official
circle. Given our level of commitment at the moment, we want to assure
you that with full dedication on your part, the objective of having
this fund remitted would have been realized within a period of two
weeks. It is hereby expressly agreed in principle that at the end of
the transaction, you will be entitled to 25% of the entire sum, 75%
will be for my colleagues and I.
If you are interested in this proposal, please for confidential reasons
respond only to my private email address:bodegeorge@phantomemail.com
for more clarifications. If however you are not interested, still let
me know to enable me search for someone else to carry out this business
with.
I anticipate a timely response from you.
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
CHIEF(DR.)BODE GEORGE" - mohrt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Of some interest, mistakes Ray Tomlinson made while working on SNDMSG:
http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/mistakes.html - pardonmedoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was an NPR piece a week or so ago about Abraham Lincoln's use of "T-mail." Apparently Lincoln was the first President to have access to technology enabling near-instantaneous nationwide communication. He used it to win the Civil War by communicating with his generals.
- dxbmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Considering he was using a DVORAK keyboard, amazing!
- waldo21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For anyone interested in the history of the internet and its creation, I recommend a book called "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".
- pixelguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was the subject of the SECOND email.
(the first message was just a test) - TheSeeker11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The answer is obvious - Chuck Norris.
- blynder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So we have this guy to blame for SPAM, I wonder if he went through the same dilemma as Einstein did with nuclear fusion
- wstrucke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yes and blame alexander graham bell for the telemarketers calling you while you sit at home waiting for the pizza you just ordered on the phone.
even if that was supposed to be a joke... lame. - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I blame Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel.
- mwolfzorn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hmm I'm not sure about naked, but the first picture:
http://www.answers.com/topic/les-horribles-cernettes
http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/firstband.html - Chris24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thomas Edison used the first light bulb. The Inventor of electronic mail, probally used it first :-) At least for testing.
- Doriath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can you prove that he has no proof?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How cool is that?! And all of as were to search and find his back to 2001 post?
- drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was long winded for: WHat type of email are they talking about? BBS were email of some sort, message boards, morse code etc. They are *probably* talking about MIME based email from RFCs. IF so I would imagine that it would be devleopers of these standards: http://www.imc.org/rfcs.html . RFCs, MIME messaging run email, http, etc.
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