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    Do you use email every day? Do you know who sent the first email and to whom? And what's the message in that email? Raymond Samuel Tomilson and Shiva Ayyadurai do you know these two names? 

Who invented email?

     Leading American computer scientists Raymond Samuel Tomilson introduced the first email system for ARPANET(The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the year 1971. He is internationally known as the inventor of email. Meanwhile, Shiva Ayyadurai (Indian-American Scientist), at age of 14, started working on the email system of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersy in 1978.

  

Raymond Samuel Tomilson and V.A Shiva Ayyadurai

What did Raymond Samuel Tomilson invent?

    Raymond Samuel Tomilson came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another. He gave a version of how he invented email. Tomilson is widely credited as the creator of email everywhere, as part of ARPANET's 1971 program. He picked the @ symbol from the Computer keyboard to denote sending a message from one device to another.

What did Shiva Ayyadurai invent?

    Shiva Ayyadurai created a small electronic mail system in 1980, which is used at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersy. But the message from outside the university could not be sent through this system.

What was the first email message?

  Raymond Samuel Tomilson emailed one machine to another machine to check the first email system. In this email they sent the text "qwertyuiop".This was just a test message.This was World's first electronic mail.

How many people in the world use email? 

    There are over 3.9 billion email users worldwide. Email usage is actually still growing at a rapid rate. By the start of 2019, there were an estimated 3.8 billion email accounts around the world, a 100 million increase from 2018. Half of the global population uses email. In 2020 we can expect the number of email users climb to 4 billion.

Which country uses email most?

    China has the highest number of Internet users, with the highest number of email users. Over 590.6 million email users, China is the country with the largest number of email users in the world. Countries in the Middle East register the lowest number of email users because of minimal internet connectivity.

Which companies provide email services?

    Many companies in the world provide email services. Google's Gmail is one of the most popular and widely used services. Like Gmail, many companies now offer email services as follows.

• Gmail
• Yahoo
• Outlook.com
• Zoho mail
• Yandex
• Tutanota
• Proton Mail
• Mailbox.org
• GMX
• iCloud Mail
• AOL Mail
• MsgSafe.io

When was the email service introduced in india ?

    On 15 August 1995, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) launched the first public internet service in india. At the same time, email service was started in india. Today, there more than 317 million email users in India.

How many emails are sent per day?

    306 billion emails are sent and received worldwide every day and 149,513 emails sent per minute and that figure is expected to grow almost 320 billions daily in 2021, according to Statista.

             emails sent per Year

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