{"id":165,"date":"2013-11-24T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexyz.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/history-of-email\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T16:51:49","slug":"history-of-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexyz.com\/blog\/history-of-email\/","title":{"rendered":"History Of Email"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1965 <\/b>– Email is introduced at MIT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1971<\/b> –\u00a0Raymond Tomlinson<\/a> allegedly sent \u201cQWERTYUIOP\u201d as the first email message ever sent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1977<\/b> – A standard format (RFC 733) is proposed to enable sending email across the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1977\u00a0<\/b>– U.S. Postal Service foresees email as a potential threat to mail volumes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1981<\/b> –\u00a0The American Standard Code for Information Interchange adopted a process of letters, punctuation and symbols to digitally store information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1982<\/b> – First use of the word “email.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1985<\/b> – Most users of email are Government and military employees, students and academic professionals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1988<\/b> – The first commercial email product, Microsoft Mail is released for the Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1989<\/b> – CompuServe<\/a> offers Internet connectivity and email to its subscribers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1989<\/b> – IBM<\/a> releases Lotus Notes 1.0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1991<\/b> – Email spam begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1993<\/b> – BellSouth and IBM unveil Simon Personal Communicator, the world’s first mobile phone with PDA features, including email capability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1993<\/b> – AOL<\/a> and Delphi connect their proprietary email systems to the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1992<\/b> – Microsoft Outlook for MS-DOS is released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1996<\/b> – Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launch “HoTMail<\/a>,” one of the first free Web-based email services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1997<\/b> – Microsoft Outlook 97 is released, offering a central hub that includes email, scheduling, contact management, task management and a journal module.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1997<\/b> – Yahoo<\/a>! introduces Yahoo! Mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1997<\/b> – Microsoft purchases Hotmail for approximately $400 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1998<\/b> – “You’ve Got Mail<\/a>” premiers at the box office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1998<\/b> – HTML and rich text formatting is introduced to email messages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2000<\/b> – \u00a0Microsoft<\/a> launches Outlook 2000 which includes the ability to incorporate personal, corporate and Web-based information in one place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2000<\/b> – Microsoft introduces Entourage mail for Mac.<\/p>\n

2000<\/b> – First public mention of the idea to create mail sender DNS records, later to become known as SPF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2004<\/b> – Google<\/a> launches Gmail<\/a> on April 1st.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2003<\/b> – The BlackBerry<\/a> smartphone is introduced to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2004<\/b> – The Federal Trade Commission passes email spam laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2011<\/b> – Associated Press Stylebook<\/a> changes “e-mail<\/em>” to email<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2012<\/b> – In the United States, 90 million Americans access email through a mobile device, with 64% of them doing it on a daily basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2013<\/b> –\u00a0There are more than 3 billion email accounts across the globe, and approximately 294 billion emails are sent per day.<\/p>\n

2013<\/b> – The first domains start to adopt a DMARC policy.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong> – In April 2014, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published SPF (Sender Policy Framework<\/em><\/a>) in RFC 7208 as a proposed standard.<\/p>\n

2015<\/b> – Groupon became the company that sends the most email. Groupon sent 388 emails on average per user. (Source: unroll.me)<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong> – Microsoft launches Office 365<\/a> email and it quickly becomes Microsofts most profitable product.<\/p>\n

2016<\/b> – During the 2016 US elections, Hillary Clinton makes headlines for using a “private email server.”<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong> – Aproximatley half of the world population uses email as the global number of daily email users hits 3.7 billion.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0– 76% of businesses reported being a victim of a phishing attack<\/p>\n

2019<\/b> – 80 percent of business email domains continue to lack DMARC protection<\/a><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong>\u00a0– Phishing accounts for 90% of data breaches<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sources: Microsoft, Mashable, Macworld, AP Stylebook, Wikipedia.<\/i><\/p>\n

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