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The end of the age of email
Work life is becoming more collaborative; has email kept up?
29 September 2017
Email and I were born at roughly the same time, and like me, it’s beginning to show its age.
ARPANET contractor Ray Tomlinson is credited with sending the first mail – to himself – around 1971. He can’t even remember what it said. “Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar,” he’s been quoted as saying.
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