Question

Who executed the first email program on the ARPANET ?

• A. Tim Berners-Lee
• B. Vint Cerf
• C. Ray Tomlinson
• D. Bill Gates

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Ray Tomlinson

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.