18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
12:45 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
And PROFS came out in 1981. I started using PROFS around 1987.
Peace... Sridhar
Keep in mind
that the email began* as an application
of the ARPAnet file transfer protocol. Very soon
after the first nodes were hooked up in '69/'70,
people began using the file transfer capabilities
to leave notes for each other. It didn't take long
at all before someone said, "hey, lets put together
an addressing and delivery mechanism" and you had
email.
Something the military had been doing for some years, already...