E-mail was first introduced at MIT in 1965 and became more widely used with the spread of the internet. Ray Tomlinson sent the first email over ARPANET in 1971 and a standard format was proposed in 1977 to allow email to be sent across different networks. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, email became more popular and accessible with the commercialization of email programs and services and the rise of the internet. Standards and features continued to develop, addressing issues like spam and making email more full-featured and integrated into other applications and devices.

1. Evolution of E-mail
Presented By:
Afnan Ahsan

2. E-mail
• “Electronic mail” a system for
receiving, sending, and storing electronic
messages.
• It has gained nearly universal popularity around
the world with the spread of the Internet.
• E-mail has become the preferred method for both
personal and business communication.

3. Evolution of E-mail
• 1965 e-mail was introduced at MIT.
• 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first network
e-mail on ARPANET.
• 1977 A standard format (RFC 733) was
proposed to enable sending e-mail across the
internet.
• In the same year, U.S postal service began to
see email as potential threat to mail volumes.

4. Evolution of E-mail
• 1982 Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
was introduced which was the first known
use of e-mail.
• 1988 the first commercial e-mail
product, Microsoft mail was released for
the Mac.
• 1989 IBM released Lotus Notes 1.0.
• 1989 CompuServe offered easy internet
and mail service.

5. Evolution of E-mail
• 1990 e-mail spam began.
• 1992 Microsoft outlook for MS.DOS was released.
• 1993 BellSouth and IBM unveil Simon Personal
communicator , the world’s first mobile phone with PDA
features including e-mail capability.
• 1996 Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched “Hot Mail”
one of the first free web based e-mail services.
• 1997 Microsoft Outlook 97 was released, offering a central
hub that includes e-mail, scheduling, contact
management, task management and a journal module.
• In the same year , Yahoo! introduced Yahoo! Mail.

6. Evolution of E-mail
• 1998 Microsoft outlook includes the ability to customize and
incorporate personal, corporate and web-based information
in one place.
• Late 1990s , HTML was introduced, allowing for rich
formatting within messages
• 2000 Microsoft introduced Entourage mail for Mac.
• 2003 Microsoft outlook introduced Junk mail and anti-
phishing filters.
• 2004 E-mail spam laws codified by Federal Trade
Commission.
• 2006 FACEBOOK opened to public, and outlook 2007 was
released.

7. Evolution of E-mail
• 2010 Microsoft outlook 2010 and Window phone 7
introduced.
• 2010 Facebook announced plans to incorporate
Microsoft Office web Apps into its messaging
system.
• 2011 Associated press stylebook changes “e-
mail” to “email”.