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‘‘Tomlinson, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT, was working for a Boston technology firm in 1971 when he decided to figure out a way for people to send messages via computer. At the time, Tomlinson recalled, ARPANET – the Internet’s predecessor – was fairly new and the idea of sending messages from computer to computer was novel. Computers themselves were often giant mainframe beasts that filled entire rooms.’’
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/06/us/ray-tomlinson-email-creator-obit/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-man-who-invented-email-has-died#.klmgYv3JK