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The History of Email

With billions of people all over the world sending emails every day, both at work and personally, we tend to take for granted this method of communication and consider email as an inherent part of our modern digital lives. In reality, however, email is a relatively recent luxury.

We have Ray Tomlinson to thank for initiating the incredible new era of communication that we now enjoy – he sent the first email in 1971. Tomlinson was born in New York, USA, in 1941. He started his impressive working career as a computer engineer. No one asked him to invent email – it was something that Tomlinson was working on as a personal side project.

Email began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange a message. The concept of sending another person a message through a computer was not invented by Tomlinson because computer scientists had been exchanging messages on machines for years. Yet these previous forms of electronic communication only allowed people to send messages to other users of the same computer or to numbered mailboxes where the messages had to be printed out.

Tomlinson wanted to send messages to people, not mailboxes, so he decided to modify and combine the programmes that were already out there. Speaking to The Verge in 2012, Tomlinson said, “There was no really good way to leave messages for people. The telephone worked up to a point, but someone had to be there to receive the call. And if it wasn't the person you wanted to get, it was an administrative assistant or an answering service. That was the sort of mechanism you had to go through to leave a message, so everyone obsessed with the idea that you could leave messages on the computer.” Email was initially seen as a speedy way for programmers and researchers to keep in touch  – particularly targeted at those who can’t be relied on to answer their phones. Tomlinson was frequently asked what the first message was and to many people’s disappointment he said, “The test messages were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”

In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, using the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient. Tomlinson understood that he needed to use a symbol that would not appear in anyone’s name. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the only preposition on the keyboard – “at” sign, both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone’s name, and it turned an email address into a phrase: “user ‘at’ host”.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first head of state to use email. She tried out the electronic mail programme on 26 March, 1976 during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. They gave her the username HME2 for “Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”

What Tomlinson didn’t invent was the term “email”. It wasn’t coined until several years later. By 1993 the word “electronic mail” had been replaced by “email” in the public lexicon and internet use became more widespread.

What is mentioned in PARAGRAPH 1?

The History of Email

With billions of people all over the world sending emails every day, both at work and personally, we tend to take for granted this method of communication and consider email as an inherent part of our modern digital lives. In reality, however, email is a relatively recent luxury.

We have Ray Tomlinson to thank for initiating the incredible new era of communication that we now enjoy – he sent the first email in 1971. Tomlinson was born in New York, USA, in 1941. He started his impressive working career as a computer engineer. No one asked him to invent email – it was something that Tomlinson was working on as a personal side project.

Email began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange a message. The concept of sending another person a message through a computer was not invented by Tomlinson because computer scientists had been exchanging messages on machines for years. Yet these previous forms of electronic communication only allowed people to send messages to other users of the same computer or to numbered mailboxes where the messages had to be printed out.

Tomlinson wanted to send messages to people, not mailboxes, so he decided to modify and combine the programmes that were already out there. Speaking to The Verge in 2012, Tomlinson said, “There was no really good way to leave messages for people. The telephone worked up to a point, but someone had to be there to receive the call. And if it wasn't the person you wanted to get, it was an administrative assistant or an answering service. That was the sort of mechanism you had to go through to leave a message, so everyone obsessed with the idea that you could leave messages on the computer.” Email was initially seen as a speedy way for programmers and researchers to keep in touch  – particularly targeted at those who can’t be relied on to answer their phones. Tomlinson was frequently asked what the first message was and to many people’s disappointment he said, “The test messages were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”

In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, using the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient. Tomlinson understood that he needed to use a symbol that would not appear in anyone’s name. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the only preposition on the keyboard – “at” sign, both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone’s name, and it turned an email address into a phrase: “user ‘at’ host”.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first head of state to use email. She tried out the electronic mail programme on 26 March, 1976 during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. They gave her the username HME2 for “Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”

What Tomlinson didn’t invent was the term “email”. It wasn’t coined until several years later. By 1993 the word “electronic mail” had been replaced by “email” in the public lexicon and internet use became more widespread.

What does the author say about Ray Tomlinson?

The History of Email

With billions of people all over the world sending emails every day, both at work and personally, we tend to take for granted this method of communication and consider email as an inherent part of our modern digital lives. In reality, however, email is a relatively recent luxury.

We have Ray Tomlinson to thank for initiating the incredible new era of communication that we now enjoy – he sent the first email in 1971. Tomlinson was born in New York, USA, in 1941. He started his impressive working career as a computer engineer. No one asked him to invent email – it was something that Tomlinson was working on as a personal side project.

Email began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange a message. The concept of sending another person a message through a computer was not invented by Tomlinson because computer scientists had been exchanging messages on machines for years. Yet these previous forms of electronic communication only allowed people to send messages to other users of the same computer or to numbered mailboxes where the messages had to be printed out.

Tomlinson wanted to send messages to people, not mailboxes, so he decided to modify and combine the programmes that were already out there. Speaking to The Verge in 2012, Tomlinson said, “There was no really good way to leave messages for people. The telephone worked up to a point, but someone had to be there to receive the call. And if it wasn't the person you wanted to get, it was an administrative assistant or an answering service. That was the sort of mechanism you had to go through to leave a message, so everyone obsessed with the idea that you could leave messages on the computer.” Email was initially seen as a speedy way for programmers and researchers to keep in touch  – particularly targeted at those who can’t be relied on to answer their phones. Tomlinson was frequently asked what the first message was and to many people’s disappointment he said, “The test messages were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”

In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, using the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient. Tomlinson understood that he needed to use a symbol that would not appear in anyone’s name. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the only preposition on the keyboard – “at” sign, both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone’s name, and it turned an email address into a phrase: “user ‘at’ host”.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first head of state to use email. She tried out the electronic mail programme on 26 March, 1976 during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. They gave her the username HME2 for “Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”

What Tomlinson didn’t invent was the term “email”. It wasn’t coined until several years later. By 1993 the word “electronic mail” had been replaced by “email” in the public lexicon and internet use became more widespread.

Before Ray Tomlinson’s invention it was impossible _______.

The History of Email

With billions of people all over the world sending emails every day, both at work and personally, we tend to take for granted this method of communication and consider email as an inherent part of our modern digital lives. In reality, however, email is a relatively recent luxury.

We have Ray Tomlinson to thank for initiating the incredible new era of communication that we now enjoy – he sent the first email in 1971. Tomlinson was born in New York, USA, in 1941. He started his impressive working career as a computer engineer. No one asked him to invent email – it was something that Tomlinson was working on as a personal side project.

Email began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange a message. The concept of sending another person a message through a computer was not invented by Tomlinson because computer scientists had been exchanging messages on machines for years. Yet these previous forms of electronic communication only allowed people to send messages to other users of the same computer or to numbered mailboxes where the messages had to be printed out.

Tomlinson wanted to send messages to people, not mailboxes, so he decided to modify and combine the programmes that were already out there. Speaking to The Verge in 2012, Tomlinson said, “There was no really good way to leave messages for people. The telephone worked up to a point, but someone had to be there to receive the call. And if it wasn't the person you wanted to get, it was an administrative assistant or an answering service. That was the sort of mechanism you had to go through to leave a message, so everyone obsessed with the idea that you could leave messages on the computer.” Email was initially seen as a speedy way for programmers and researchers to keep in touch  – particularly targeted at those who can’t be relied on to answer their phones. Tomlinson was frequently asked what the first message was and to many people’s disappointment he said, “The test messages were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”

In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, using the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient. Tomlinson understood that he needed to use a symbol that would not appear in anyone’s name. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the only preposition on the keyboard – “at” sign, both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone’s name, and it turned an email address into a phrase: “user ‘at’ host”.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first head of state to use email. She tried out the electronic mail programme on 26 March, 1976 during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. They gave her the username HME2 for “Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”

What Tomlinson didn’t invent was the term “email”. It wasn’t coined until several years later. By 1993 the word “electronic mail” had been replaced by “email” in the public lexicon and internet use became more widespread.

What did Ray Tomlinson want to do?

The History of Email

With billions of people all over the world sending emails every day, both at work and personally, we tend to take for granted this method of communication and consider email as an inherent part of our modern digital lives. In reality, however, email is a relatively recent luxury.

We have Ray Tomlinson to thank for initiating the incredible new era of communication that we now enjoy – he sent the first email in 1971. Tomlinson was born in New York, USA, in 1941. He started his impressive working career as a computer engineer. No one asked him to invent email – it was something that Tomlinson was working on as a personal side project.

Email began as an experiment to see if two computers could exchange a message. The concept of sending another person a message through a computer was not invented by Tomlinson because computer scientists had been exchanging messages on machines for years. Yet these previous forms of electronic communication only allowed people to send messages to other users of the same computer or to numbered mailboxes where the messages had to be printed out.

Tomlinson wanted to send messages to people, not mailboxes, so he decided to modify and combine the programmes that were already out there. Speaking to The Verge in 2012, Tomlinson said, “There was no really good way to leave messages for people. The telephone worked up to a point, but someone had to be there to receive the call. And if it wasn't the person you wanted to get, it was an administrative assistant or an answering service. That was the sort of mechanism you had to go through to leave a message, so everyone obsessed with the idea that you could leave messages on the computer.” Email was initially seen as a speedy way for programmers and researchers to keep in touch  – particularly targeted at those who can’t be relied on to answer their phones. Tomlinson was frequently asked what the first message was and to many people’s disappointment he said, “The test messages were entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”

In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, using the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient. Tomlinson understood that he needed to use a symbol that would not appear in anyone’s name. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the only preposition on the keyboard – “at” sign, both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone’s name, and it turned an email address into a phrase: “user ‘at’ host”.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first head of state to use email. She tried out the electronic mail programme on 26 March, 1976 during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. They gave her the username HME2 for “Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”

What Tomlinson didn’t invent was the term “email”. It wasn’t coined until several years later. By 1993 the word “electronic mail” had been replaced by “email” in the public lexicon and internet use became more widespread.

What is stated in the passage?

The Most Famous Towers of the World

Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan

The Minaret of Jam is a fascinating structure which continues to puzzle academics around the world. Is it a minaret? Or a monument symbolising the success of war? The minaret stands 65 metres tall in Afghanistan, in isolation apart from the ruins of a mosque constructed in the 12th century. The mosque got destroyed in a terrible flood. However, the minaret was not affected. Even more surprisingly, it wasn’t destroyed during the Mongol invasion and recent military conflicts, and today it stands still even after all the events that took place in the area.

This tower ________.

CN Tower, Canada

One of Canada’s most popular and most visited structures, the CN Tower in Toronto’s downtown stands amongst many skyscrapers, showcasing extraordinary beauty and brilliance. This concrete observation and communications tower was built on the former Railway Lands. Built in 1973, the 553-metre-high tower boasted of being the world’s tallest freestanding structure for 32 long years before the top spot was captured by Burj Khalifa. Interestingly, the tower survives an average of 75 lightning strikes per year!

This tower ________.

Galata Tower, Turkey

One of Istanbul’s fascinating structures is the Galata Tower, standing tall at about 220 metres. It features a conical-shaped top, making it look extremely attractive. There is an amazing restaurant as well as a café at the top, from where one can enjoy the Bosphorus Strait’s breathtaking views. The tower is closed if the wind speed reaches 40 km/h, or the temperature drops below -20 degrees Celsius, as well as whenever there is lightning. Built way back in 1348, the structure still stands strong and attracts lots of tourists every year.

This tower ________.