Email Invention

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Question 1

Which computer engineer sent the first network email message in 1971 while working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)?

Question 2

Why did Ray Tomlinson select the '@' (at symbol) to separate user names from host computer names?

Question 3

What text did Ray Tomlinson type in the very first experimental network email message sent between two side-by-side PDP-10 computers?

Question 4

Which United States government research agency funded the ARPANET, where network electronic mail was first deployed?

Question 5

In 1976, which world monarch made international headlines by becoming the first reigning royal to transmit an electronic email?

Question 6

In May 1978, Gary Thuerk sent the world's first unsolicited commercial spam email across ARPANET promoting which company's computers?

Question 7

What standard internet application protocol used for transmitting outgoing email over TCP/IP networks was officially defined in RFC 821 in 1982?

Question 8

What revolutionary webmail service launched on United States Independence Day in 1996, offering free inbox access from any browser?

Question 9

On April Fools' Day in 2004, Google launched Gmail, shocking the tech world by offering how much free storage space?

Question 10

What email standard introduced in 1992 extended message formats to support multimedia attachments like images, audio, and non-ASCII character sets?

Which computer engineer sent the first network email message in 1971 while working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)?