"Almost by accident", that's how Raymond Tomlinson describes his invention of one of the biggest communications phenomena ever created (Dictionary, n.d.). The computer application took mere minutes to construct. Tomlinson had no idea what he had made. But email, whether he knew it or not, was to become an important part of the computer world and Raymond Tomlinson was to become infamous.
Email is quite possibly the most important computer application ever created. Even the most primitive of computer systems comes with access to email. The most novice computer users know how to send and receive email and the slowest Internet provider will get a user to an email server. As the first major computer application, email is a huge part of daily
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In 1960 at the young age of 19, he wrote his first computer program as an intern at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY. He went on to attend graduate school at MIT where he had problems with neglecting his studies, too busy with writing new computer programs to spend time in class (Campell, n.d.). In 1965 after getting his Master's degree from MIT in computer engineering, he began work on his doctoral thesis on computer voice recognition. In the middle of working on his thesis he paid a visit to Bolt Beranek and Newman, a large corporate company (BBN). Two years later BBN hired him to work in their Research Computer Center (Carmen, …show more content…
Tomlinson worked on building the program, SNDMSG, which allowed multiple users on the same computer to leave messages for each other to view later. SNDMSG used a "mailbox" to deliver messages by applying the message to the end of the mailbox. At the same time Tomlinson was working on SNDMSG, he was also testing a program (CYPNET) that transferred files between computers on the ARPANET. In 1971, while working on the two programs he thought up a way to blend SNDMSG and CYPNET: instead of delivering messages to a mailbox on the same computer, messages could be delivered to a mailbox on a different computer (Campell, n.d.). After creating the email system he had to come up with a way to separate messages coming from one computer from those coming from another. After only a few minutes of thought, he decided on the @ sign, because the message was going from where he was at, to where someone else was at. This simple symbol would come to mean more than he ever thought possible. The first email was actually sent from Tomlinson at one computer to himself at another computer that sat right beside the first. Unlike Alexander Graham Bell's famous first call to his assistant, Thomas Watson in which he allegedly said "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." the contents of the first email message are not know. Tomlinson said he thinks he just struck
Roberts was born in 1905 to a working class family in a Salford slum. He took a position as an engineering apprentice following his completion of school. Following his apprenticeship, he was unemployed for three years, utilizing this time to study languages. After becoming a teacher, Roberts wrote many award winning stories, plays, and scripts. Roberts became a farmer for sixteen years before beginning a career teaching in prisons. Roberts...
In 1953 Colin graduated Morris High School at the youthful age of sixteen. He did not have an idea of what he wanted to be all he knew was he wanted to make his parents proud. In the year 1954 Colin took his first step to his brilant future. He enrolled at CCNY (City College of New York). His parents insisted he major in engineering, and he did. He had no desire to further his education but did anyway to make his parents proud.
Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father's efforts to educate blacks, Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood in this rural community. (Kraeuter, 74). As a child he was fascinated with machinery and was often excited when hearing of the many technological advances during the late 19th century. He began tinkering and inventing things even in high school, often trying to build things that he could sell for money. By the age of 13 he was an enthusiastic inventor of mechanical gadgets such as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries).
Richard was educated in the Indianapolis Public School System and attended Crispus Attucks High School. He was a Veteran of the United States Army and while serving our beloved country held the occupation as a cook. After his honorable discharge from the Unite States Army, Richard obtained employment as a general contractor and maintenance engineer for 40+ years and later was employed at Crown Hill as a grounds keeper until his health began to fail.
He went to New York’s Cornell University home of the Big Red. He was Carl Sagan’s student. He graduated in 1977 from Cornell. The other schools he went to was Lafayette Elementary, Sidwell Friends School, and Alice Deal Junior High Vikings. He then moved to Seattle, Washington. There he worked as a mechanical engineer for a company called the Boeing Aircraft Company. The next job he ha...
Another invention that is now frequently used is the computer. The concept was made in 1822, by Charles Babbage, but it wasn’t until 1837 when he ...
Although the majority of people cannot imagine life without computers, they owe their gratitude toward an algorithm machine developed seventy to eighty years ago. Although the enormous size and primitive form of the object might appear completely unrelated to modern technology, its importance cannot be over-stated. Not only did the Turing Machine help the Allies win World War II, but it also laid the foundation for all computers that are in use today. The machine also helped its creator, Alan Turing, to design more advanced devices that still cause discussion and controversy today. The Turing Machine serves as a testament to the ingenuity of its creator, the potential of technology, and the glory of innovation.
Jeff attended Miami Palmetto high school and was valedictorian of his class. He went to Princeton and planned to study physics. He believed, however, that other physics students were much smarter than him. Therefore, he studied electrical engineering and computer science. He graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a GPA of 4.3 on a 4.0 scale.
Ceruzzi, P. E. (1998). A history of modern computing (pp. 270-272). London, England: The MIT Press.
Ph.D. in Physics from Gonville and Caius College. During this time, he also worked at
( qtd. in Boyd, Ellison). On the other hand, a timeline display of the history shows that in 1969 “CompuServe was the first major commercial Internet service provider for the public in the United States.” In 1971, “the first email was delivered.” I agree that the first step to the whole explosion began with the email. Through email, people were primarily communicating with each other through the internet and having the ability to use the Short Message Service (SMS) to be more private when talking with one another.
Since the development of the Internet in late 1980s, communication has changed enormously. The Internet has altered the lives of people in the world in a way that was never imagined before. As little as a decade ago, if someone tried to explain the Internet and World Wide Web, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to understand. Computers were just beginning to become popular and few individuals realized the capacity of one PC, let alone the power of a network of electronic technology. By linking together computers, users could remotely access others on the network, share information, and send electronic mail as easily as pushing a button. Millions of people with shared interests, exchange information and build communities through Web sites, email and instant-messaging software.
Communication is important in life. Companies need to communicate with other companies and customers. The managers also need to communicate with the staff. The technology provides us with many means of communication, the most important of which is e-mail.
The history of the computer dates back all the way to the prehistoric times. The first step towards the development of the computer, the abacus, was developed in Babylonia in 500 B.C. and functioned as a simple counting tool. It was not until thousands of years later that the first calculator was produced. In 1623, the first mechanical calculator was invented by Wilhelm Schikard, the “Calculating Clock,” as it was often referred to as, “performed it’s operations by wheels, which worked similar to a car’s odometer” (Evolution, 1). Still, there had not yet been anything invented that could even be characterized as a computer. Finally, in 1625 the slide rule was created becoming “the first analog computer of the modern ages” (Evolution, 1). One of the biggest breakthroughs came from by Blaise Pascal in 1642, who invented a mechanical calculator whose main function was adding and subtracting numbers. Years later, Gottfried Leibnez improved Pascal’s model by allowing it to also perform such operations as multiplying, dividing, taking the square root.
...othing like what are computers are today, it still started the ball rolling for the invention of many practical and useful computers today.