By Marcel Becker, Sr Director Product Management The first ever email sent over a network – the beginning of email as we use it today – was sent 50 years ago, in October 1971 by MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson. Ray Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) introduced the convention of the ‘@’ symbol to identify a message recipient on a remote computer system, and using this ‘@’ symbol format, Ray was the first person to send an email between two computers. Ray sent the first email t...
