Leading up to the development of the first electronic email, computer scientists at MIT needed to find a way to communicate quickly via research and academic purposes. In 1971, scientists developed a MAILBOX program that allowed the exchange of messages in one place between two existing computers. This discovery took a small quantity of speed, as scientists thought it would. It was faster to deliver by hand a note next door than to exchange messages that took time over computers in the same room. There was also a struggle with co-workers not answering their phones, which is why this development of the electrical email was needed. Ray Tomlinson at BBN took the most significant step in 1972. He created a newly designed messaging system that is acceptable for the PDP-10 computer. This new messaging system consisted of an operating system for sending messages and a retrieval program to accept mail. At the time, the PDP-10 computer was trendy amongst companies, and this experiment made it possible to advance in the electronic mail over ARPANET, the first public packet-switched computer network used for academic and research purposes. After SENDMESSAGING and READMAIL became mail and machine learning, emailing was implemented for ARPANET programmers.
Moving on from Tomlinsons work, The Rise of the Electronic Email in 1971-1975 was deemed the most convenient way of communication. One of ARPAS's directors, Stephen Lukasik, strongly encouraged his staff to use email. Because emails were flying between co-workers, Lukasik got to the point where he was unorganized and felt flooded. In this case, MSG was then created in 1975 by John Vittal. MSG is an electronic discussion group and was then the most widely used mail management program because of its convenient features. This program could handle an even more significant amount of mail, sort messages into separate files, and make replying and forwarding easier.
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Electronic email started to spark and be used by everyone. By 1976, 75% of the ARPANET traffic was electronic mail that allowed the communication of messages within an internal network. By the 1980s, Internet service providers had connected people worldwide, and email hosting sites had wanted to join in. For many new internet users, electronic email was the first practical application of this discovery. In 1993, electronic email changed its title to "mail," over the next few years, echomail, Hotmail, and Yahoo shaped the internet and email world. These companies increased marketing dollars and exposure to the World Wide Web to what it is today. Nowadays, the internet has exploded positively from 55 million users worldwide, making emailing an everyday activity. Emailing can contact friends, communicate with professors and supervisors, request information, and apply for jobs, internships, and scholarships. Unfortunately, the negatives from emailing are dangerous and are still in place today. Unsolicited emails can quickly overwhelm and fill email systems unless a protected software or firewall keeps these harmful messages from being in the inbox. Because viruses can quickly spread through links and email attachments, email security issues are rising, especially when using the cloud or remote access. Today, media on our phones and computers consumes much of our lives. What some researchers have worried about ever since emailing came about is that it makes us lack a personal touch. For example, instead of meeting for lunch over a topic, two co-workers could efficiently resolve an issue over email instead of catching up and fueling themselves. Meeting in person could also help avoid miscommunication that someone could feel over an email, which could quickly resolve that.
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