{"id":4959,"date":"2016-03-15T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2016-03-15T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:07:34","slug":"do-you-know-who-invented-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/do-you-know-who-invented-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know who invented email?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"ray-tomlinson\" width=\"228\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson-64x55.jpg 64w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ray-tomlinson.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>You could possibly blame one man for all the spam in your inbox, however just over a week the inventor of email, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/institutional\/2016\/03\/remembering-ray-tomlinson?gclid=Cj0KEQjwwpm3BRDuh5awn4qJpLwBEiQAATTAQXURrnIlZQeuypFoz6UIhFdrb3kPzkvZ0MV6nDs36_0aAjml8P8HAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Tomlinson<\/a>, passed away at the age of 74.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may not realise that email is actually older than the modern internet and was a work in progress back in 1971. \u00a0 At the time Ray knew he was onto something big but never imagined exactly how much of a role it would play on a global scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great short video that will take you back to where email began. \u00a0RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/institutional\/2016\/03\/remembering-ray-tomlinson?gclid=Cj0KEQjwwpm3BRDuh5awn4qJpLwBEiQAATTAQXURrnIlZQeuypFoz6UIhFdrb3kPzkvZ0MV6nDs36_0aAjml8P8HAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Tomlinson.<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhXk3wzemR4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could possibly blame one man for all the spam in your inbox, however just over a week the inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, passed away at the age of 74. You may not realise that email is actually older than the modern internet and was a work in progress back in 1971. \u00a0 At the time Ray knew he<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/do-you-know-who-invented-email\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[938,1358],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-email","tag-ray-tomlinson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do you know who invented email? - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/do-you-know-who-invented-email\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do you know who invented email? - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You could possibly blame one man for all the spam in your inbox, however just over a week the inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, passed away at the age of 74. 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