The same may be true of the story of the telephone. Most 6th graders can well recount Alexander Graham Bells telephonic trek into history with the now legendary summons to his assistant on March 10, 1876: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you."

Likewise, I'm sure they would know all about the blustery day of December 12, 1901, when Guglielmo Marconi and his assistants heard the faint transmission from across the Atlantic: dot, dot,

The birth of email, however, was something quite less dramatic and it's inventor, almost an unknown.

Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the first email was simply a test message to himself. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls.

"The test messages were entirely forgettable." The email was sent via ARPANET from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tomlinson had been playing around with two programs called SNDMSG and R

EADMAIL, which allowed users to leave messages for one another on the same machine. He applied the idea behind

Email is evolving more rapidly than any of its predecessors ever did. What was a tool for a closed group of scientists 30 years ago, has become a staple of industry and a household

Thus also creating the first piece of what is now known as SPAM or nuisance mail.

Todd Campbell, and ABC News writer writes, "It seems doubtful that "QWERTYIOP" will make it into the history books. And Tomlinson's name hardly lives in the public mind. When he is remembered at all, it is as the man who picked @ as the locator symbol in electronic addresses. In truth though, he is the inventor of e-mail, the application that launched the digital information revolution. And yet the breakthrough he made was

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