E-mail...the new scope.

Could you live your life without your email? Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented, but it evolved from very simple beginnings.Early email was just a small progress on what we know these days as a file directory. It just put a message in another user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in. One can think of it just like leaving a note on someone's desk. Perhaps the first email system of this type was MAILBOX, used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. Additionally, an early program to send messages on the same computer was called SNDMSG.Most of the mainframe computers of this era might have had up to one hundred users. Often they used what are called "dumb terminals" to access the mainframe from their work desks. Dumb terminals just connect to the mainframe. They had no storage or memory of their own; they did all their work on the remote mainframe computer.Before internetworking began, as a result, email could only be used to send messages to various users of the similar computer. Shortly after, computers started to “talk” to each other over networks. Nonetheless, the problem became a little more complex .We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope and address it just like we would for a regular letter. Furthermore, to indicate to whom letters should go to, they used electronic posties understood just like the postal system. We needed a way to get a specific address.In 1972, Tomlinson was recognized with invention of the email. Similar to many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He selected the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to indicate sending messages from one computer to another. Electronic mail is a natural use of networked communication technology that developed along with the evolution of the Internet.