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10 most interesting facts about email

Good day to all, my dear friends. With you, as usual, Dmitry Kostin, and today, on our beloved Monday, I am again ready to give you a new dose of selected interesting facts. And today I would like to tell you the most interesting facts about email, as it is an integral part of our life on the Internet. Go!

Ray Tomlinson was the first person to send an email. This happened back when he was working on the project. ARPANET(1971), which later developed into the modern Internet. And although this letter was sent only to a nearby computer, it was a giant step in the field of IT technology.
By the way, the same Ray Tomlinson came up with the idea of \u200b\u200busing the @ sign in emails. But what is most interesting is that this icon is called differently in each country, for example, in our country it is a dog, and in other countries it can be snails, monkeys, etc.
A funny thing happened in 2014. Neil Moore, who was serving a sentence for large-scale fraud, created a domain that perfectly resembles the domain of the judicial system. In the same place, he created a box (almost like the official one), from which he sent a letter to the prison authorities, with an order to release Neil Moore, in connection with bail. This scam worked, and the fact that it was all a fake, it became known only after 3 days. But in the end, Neil himself surrendered to the authorities.
The first of the world leaders who used e-mail was the English Queen Elizabeth II. This momentous event took place in 1976.
In 1991, the STS-43 space shuttle's electronic crew Atlantis sent e-mail to Earth for the first time, using his Macintosh brand laptop. The message contained two well-known phrases from the movie "Terminator 2", namely "Hasta la vista, baby" and a slightly altered phrase "We "ll be back".
The most popular foreign mail is gmail.com from the corporation, mail.ru holds the first place among domestic products.
Former US President Bill Clinton sent only 2 emails in his entire life despite having a work email. Moreover, one of these letters was a test letter to make sure that everything works correctly.
Jack Smith (founder of hotmail) is the first person to come up with the idea of using e-mail through a web interface. They went through a lot of names for their service, but I wanted something that would reflect the main idea of sending emails through the web interface. As a result, we settled on the name Hotmal, since it contains the letters HTML ( H o TM ai L). So this mailer is not connected with anything hot, as many people think.
Today, about 90% of emails are spam. And despite the fact that the amount of spam is increasing every day, the number of responses to it is only decreasing. By the way, you can read about the origin of the word SPAM in mine. And by the way, the very first SPAM message was sent in 1978.
The very first free mail service Rocketmail was launched in 1996, mail.ru service was launched in 1998, mail from became available in 2000, and the first letter was sent with Gmail in 2004. And despite the fact that mail from Google appeared rather late, it easily overtook competitors around the world.