Network email was introduced on the DARPA-backed ARPANET in 1972 and became its largest network application for more than a decade.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Tight Braid

"Network email was introduced on the DARPA-backed ARPANET in 1972 and became its largest network application for more than a decade."

The Internet Society history describes Ray Tomlinson’s 1972 ARPANET mail software and email’s subsequent dominance of network activity.

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Source title A Brief History of the Internet

Source authors Barry M. Leiner; Vinton G. Cerf; David D. Clark; Robert E. Kahn; Leonard Kleinrock; Daniel C. Lynch; Jon Postel; Larry G. Roberts; Stephen Wolff

Source year 1997

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