E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, or the "Send Message Program" as it was originally named, laments the rise of spam in what is an otherwise fascinating article on the history of email. One problem he had with the first e-mail program was finding a way to separate the person to whom one was addressing a message from the computer or network they were ... Read full entry
E-mail inventor: I didn’t foresee spam
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 17 March, 2008 to the technology subset
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