The history of email is older than internet.

It was not really invented but adva nced from simple beginnings. Email messages were not sent, they were left behind much similar like leaving a note on someone's desk. This message would be easil y seen by the user when logged on. The first email system of this type was called MAILBOX. It was used in 1965 at M assachusetts Institute of Technology. SNDMSG was another early program that coul d send messages on the same computer. Thus before the arrival of internet, email messaging was only done with the same computer. When the internet was developed, the problem that occurred was sending the messa ge to the right person. While the computers could recognize and talk to each oth er, identifying a particular person to receive the email message was very compli cated. Addressing the email message was invented in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. He had worke d as an ARPANET contractor for Bolt Beranek and Newman. He chose the '@' symbol from the keyboard for denoting sending messages from one computer to the other. Since then, anyone using the internet or emailing was simple as nominating nameof-the-user @ name-of-the-computer. Other email features such as labeling and sorting emails in folders came much la ter. Larry Roberts invented some email folders for his boss for sorting his mail , it was a big progress. John Vital developed a software in 1975 for organizing email. Email started to advance greatly by 1976 and commercial packages were ava ilable. It was very costly to connect to the internet in those days. It was difficult to connect to the internet and make replies. Offline readers helped a lot to solve this problem. It allowed users to store their email on their personal computers , then read them and prepare replies without being connected to the network. Thi s is much similar to today's Microsoft Outlook. As the email's features progressed, cially for offline readers. SMTP or the two standards and was the first ll vulnerable to attacks of viruses continues. standard protocols had to be developed, espe Simple Message Transfer Protocol was one of email protocol to be used. However it is sti and worms. Development for a stronger still

POP or Post Office Protocol is another standard protocol and it allowed differen t mail systems to work with each other. SMTP and POP were both important for cli ents like Microsoft Outlook to download and send email through the server using the desktop.