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tem for sending messages between puters that used the @ symbol to identify addresses. He now can’t remember the first message he sent, or the exact date he sent it. Tomlinson’s system gained popularity by linking up users on Arpa, the US department of defence system that became the basis for the inter. 1972: Larry Roberts also at work on Arpa writes the first management program that develops the ability to list, select, forward, and respond to messages. 1976: Queen Elizabeth II sends an message on Arpa, being the first head of state to do so. 1988: Steve Dorner invents Eudora, an application that gave a popular face to by providing a graphical user interface for management. 1989: The first release of Lotus Notes software. 35,000 copies are sold in the first year. 1996: Microsoft releases Inter Mail and News , a feature of its third release of Inter Explorer. This is later renamed Outlook. 1996: A few panies including the fledgling Hotmail begin to offer free, useanywhere, inter . 1997: About 10 million users world wide have free web mail accounts. 1998: Microsoft buys Hotmail for $400m (163。283m). 20xx: Email celebrates its 30th anniversary with virtually every business in the developed world signed on. 其他相關(guān)資料: