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Thursday, December 06, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/technology/circuits/06EMAI.html The 30-Year Path of E-Mail By KATIE HAFNER It wasn't an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory. Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a relatively simple computer program that enabled electronic messages to travel from one computer to another....
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