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Tuesday, October 02, 2001
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011001/tc/tech_email_anniversary_dc_1.html E-Mail Celebrates Its 30th Birthday By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - As great inventions go, e-mail had a rather ho-hum beginning back in 1971.In fact, Ray Tomlinson, the American engineer considered the ``father of e-mail,'' can't quite recall when the first message was sent, what it said, or even who the recipient was. ``I have no idea what the first one was,'' he told Reuters. ''It might have been the first line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for all I know. The only thing I know was it was all in upper case.''...
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