The first email was sent between the two machines.
The first email was sent between the two machines. They were (obviously) side-by-side, but the only connection between them was through the ARPANET. In the foreground is BBN-TENEXA (BBNA for short). Host names in 1971 had no .com or dot anything; DNS came along later. BBNA was the machine on which the first email was received. In the background is BBN-TENEXB (BBNB) from which the first email was sent. On the left, foreground, is the Teletype KSR-33 terminal on which the first email was printed. Immediately behind and largely obscured is another KSR-33 on which the first email was typed.BBNA was a Digital Equipment Corporation KA10 (PDP-10) with 64K (36-bit) words of (real magnetic) core memory. In modern measure, that's 288 KBytes. BBNB was smaller with only 48K words. Both machines ran the TENEX time-sharing monitor.
He was also the first person to put “@” in the email. He did that because this sign wasn’t used that much anywhere else. The first email address was “tomlinson@bbn-tenexa.” BBN was the name of Mr. Tomlinson’s employer and “tenexa” was the name of the operating system that was used. What exactly was the first email message is lost.
He was also the first person to put “@” in the email. He did that because this sign wasn’t used that much anywhere else. The first email address was “tomlinson@bbn-tenexa.” BBN was the name of Mr. Tomlinson’s employer and “tenexa” was the name of the operating system that was used. What exactly was the first email message is lost.
(source: http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/home.html)
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