1971The first email was sent in 1971 — and its sender doesn’t remember what it said.

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Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers on ARPANET in 1971 and chose the @ sign to separate user and computer. He said the message was probably something like “QWERTYUIOP”.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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