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2011 BCE
2011
E-Mail is changed to Email. -
2008 BCE
2008
President Barack Obama, at the time a candidate, compiles a database of over 13 million email addresses. -
2007 BCE
2007
DKIM, an anti-phishing security protocol is created. In the same year Gmail is made available to the public by Google. -
2005 BCE
2005
SPF is created, which verifies an email senders identify. -
2004 BCE
2004
Multimedia emails are introduced -
2003 BCE
2003
George W. Bush enacts the Law known as CAN-SPAM. A national stranded for commercial emails -
1999 BCE
1999
Leading on from Spam, an email claiming Bill Gates would share his wealth with internet users circulates, being forwarded millions of time. -
1998 BCE
1998
Spam becomes an official term in the English Dictionary, for email inconsequential to the user, offering scams etc. -
1997 BCE
1997
Hotmail is purchased by Microsoft for $400 million. -
1997 BCE
1997
Microsoft releases Outlook. -
1989 BCE
1989
The first ISP is started, providing direct access to the internet, instead of limited gateways to the internet. -
1985 BCE
1985
Emailing is now commonplace, even colleges provide email accounts to their students. -
1981 BCE
1981
ASCII is used as a standard. Representing characters with numeric code instead so the fewest amount of bits are used to represent text. -
1977 BCE
1977
Modern emailing using Tomlinson's method can only work on a networked system running the same software. -
1971 BCE
1971
Ray Tomlinson sends the first email, using @ between the name and the machine the mailbox belongs to. -
1965 BCE
1965
The first emails were used to copy files from one user directory to anothers