App Logo

No.1 PSC Learning App

1M+ Downloads
Who executed the first email program on the ARPANET ?

ATim Berners-Lee

BVint Cerf

CRay Tomlinson

DBill Gates

Answer:

C. Ray Tomlinson

Read Explanation:


Origin of email:


  • Scientists at MIT developed a program called Mailbox that enabled the exchange of messages between time-sharing computers within one lab.
  • In 1971, Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, executed the first email program on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor to the internet.
  • Tomlinson designed a messaging program for use on the PDP-10 computer consisting of two individual programs, SNDMSG for sending mail and READMAIL for retrieving mail.

Related Questions:

VOIP is the acronym for _______.
WWW provides standardized access to
An IP address is a
File extensions are used in order to _____ .
Moving from one webpage to another webpage is known as