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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:59:33 -0500
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>When, where, to who and how was the FIRST e-mail sent?
I have no idea of the answer, but I have rarely heard a more intriguing question than, When and what was the first e-mail sent?
Like Bell, I suppose, the content was an afterthought; I wonder if whoever sent it may recall it if, indeed, he or she doesn't have a copy of it. It certainly deserves its own place in history, as Marconi's "What hath God wrought?" and Bell's "Warson, come here -- I need you" have earned. It seems to me that it would have been a military message, possibly predating the Internet, and likely originated on the first networked device ever created and in the first email program ever created.
What is the museum that would be the appropriate repository of such a file? For those hundreds of you who are serious historians of the Internet, may I suggest that locating this one piece of information may well secure your own place in history?
The search is on!
Best,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999
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Subject: CM> Beginnings of E-mail
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>When, where, to who and how was the FIRST e-mail sent?
I have no idea of the answer, but I have rarely heard a more intriguing question than, When and what was the first e-mail sent?
Like Bell, I suppose, the content was an afterthought; I wonder if whoever sent it may recall it if, indeed, he or she doesn't have a copy of it. It certainly deserves its own place in history, as Marconi's "What hath God wrought?" and Bell's "Warson, come here -- I need you" have earned. It seems to me that it would have been a military message, possibly predating the Internet, and likely originated on the first networked device ever created and in the first email program ever created.
What is the museum that would be the appropriate repository of such a file? For those hundreds of you who are serious historians of the Internet, may I suggest that locating this one piece of information may well secure your own place in history?
The search is on!
Best,
Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999
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