Email is older than the World Wide Web
Email was invented in 1971, twenty years before the World Wide Web, making it older than websites, graphical browsers, and the modern internet itself.
Believe it or not, email was invented in 1971, a full two decades before the World Wide Web emerged in 1991! Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email between two computers, famously choosing the @ symbol to separate usernames from computer names. He couldn't recall the exact message, but it was likely a simple test like "QWERTYUIOP."
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