First networked email sent
1971 · Event
Ray Tomlinson's @ sign and networked email become a piece of everyday life.
On these timelines: The Digital Revolution, Master
More from The Digital Revolution
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- Google founded (1998)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- First website goes online (1990)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- Apple II launched (1977)
Around 1971
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)