Was there email in 1989?

CompuServe starts internet-based email service – 1989 CompuServe became the first online service to offer internet connectivity via dial-up phone connections, and its proprietary email service allowed other internet users to send emails to each other.

When did email start being widely used?

By the 1980’s, the infancy of the internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) had begun connecting people across the world, and email “hosting” sites began to pop up, clamoring for their piece of the pie. For many new internet users, electronic mail was the first practical application of this exciting new medium.

When did Yahoo email start?

October 8, 1997
Yahoo! Mail/Dates launched

When did Ray Tomlinson email?

1971
A widely accepted story of email’s origins involves a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson who was working on an early version of the internet in 1971.

When did Gmail email start?

April 1, 2004
Gmail/Dates launched
If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched.

Is an email considered a public record?

1. The content of an email – not its location – determines whether it is a public record. If an email is made or received in connection with the transaction of public business, it is a public record regardless of whether it is created or stored on a public or a private computer, mobile device, or email system.

What was the first popular email service?

“Popular” is a bit hard to define. The first major commercial Internet Service Providers hit the scene in the early 1990s – 1995 was the year AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe all showed up. At the time (and still), ISPs would give users an email address automatically. Popular webmail services (such as Hotmail) started popping up in 1996/97.

How long has email been around?

2001: Email celebrates its 30th anniversary with virtually every business in the developed world signed on.

When did emails become a standard email format?

Emails become a standard – 1973. The first email standard was proposed in 1973 at Darpa and finalised within Arpanet in 1977, including common things such as the to and from fields, and the ability to forward emails to others who were not initially a recipient.