The first email application was built in 1971 and upgraded in 1972. With the upgrade, email became a widely used and really popular computer application. But, 30 years? Yes indeed. Don't take my word for it, check out "Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the Definitive ARPAnet and Internet History" at:http://www.zakon.org/robert/Internet imeline/Granted, most of us had never heard much if anything at all about the Internet until the mid 1990's. The world's first Internet "browser" was released in 1993, it was called Mosaic. Until the release of Mosaic, the net was strictly for nerds, government employees and university's. The net was restricted to command line use of email, document storage and databases. With the release of Mosaic, the web finally had a visual interface. 1993 was year that the flood gates began to open. With Mosaic coming online, the White House finally got its own domain at: http://www.WhiteHouse.gov and Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President ever to have his own email address: president@whitehouse.gov Though the technology and speed of the Internet has constantly changed throughout the last 30 years, one thing has not changed, the popularity of email. "Email is one of the 'Killer Apps' of the computer world. Email is the most successful communications technology since the television, and in a few years will even surpass that. There are currently more than 891 million email accounts in use Worldwide and 440 million in the U.S. alone - with an average of more than 4 email accounts per person." (Messaging Today - 2000 Electronic Mailbox Report - Feb. 21, 2001)The top providers for email service in the world today are Hotmail (with 86 million users), Yahoo (with 53 million users) and AOL (with 30 million users).Email has become so popular that in 1998, Hollywood made a movie about two people who used email to get to know one another and fall in love. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starred i
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