The History of Email [Infographic]

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1. Westinghouse Science Honors Award Bulletin, Announcement, January 21, 1981, Science Service, Washington DC
2. Ayyadurai, Shive, EMAIL: Computer Program for Electronic Mail System, August 30, 1982
   Registration Number: TXu-111-775, United States Copyright Office, 1982
3. Electronic mail System at UMDNJ, COMMAND article, 1981.
4. Livingston Student Designs Electronic Mail System, West Essex Tribune, October, 1980
5. MIT Tech Talk, The Class of 1985 Arrives to Meet the Institute, reference to freshmen who created E-Mail System, 1981.
6. E-Mail Volume Estimates from 1978 to 2001, International Center for Integrative Systems, 2011.
7. http://www.westnet.com/watpa/mail/1997/0038.html
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Notes
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail
11. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business
12. http://www.theodora.com/wfb2003/rankings/internet_users_2003_1.html
13. http://www.internetworldstats.com/pr/edi014.htm
14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
15. http://www.photius.com/rankings/communications/internet_users_2007_0.html
16. http://www.emarketer.com/Report.aspx?code=em_internet_feb07

More Detail, from the Infographic’s Author. Contains a lot of extra information about the history of email: Inventing EMAIL, By V.A. SHIVA

Author’s References

1. http://www.fact-index.com/e/e_/e_mail.html
2. http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html
3. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus2.html
4. http://www.softwarehistory.org/history/important_people.html
5. http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html
6. http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
7. http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/741/Mit-Galactic-Network.html
8. http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
9. http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/arpa—2.html
10. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm
11. http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/birth.html
12. http://www.packet.cc/internet.html
13. http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm
14. http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_kahn.htm
15. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/metcalfe.htm
16. http://everything2.com/title/Transmission+Control+Protocol+%252F+Internet+Protocol
17. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm
18. http://www.dremail.com/dr_email_inventor_history.asp
19. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821
20. http://www.ziplink.net/users/lroberts/InternetChronology.html
21. http://www.nwnetworks.com/iehistory.htm