Fax and Email

Electronic mail is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and to intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other. Often these work group collaboration organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service. E-mails can be scanned to avoid spam mail.E-mail predates the inception of the internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet. MIT first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System. E-mail was quickly extended to become network e-mail, allowing users to pass messages between different computers. The messages could be transferred between users on different computers by at least 1966. The ARPANET computer network made a large contribution to the development of e-mail. There is one report which indicates experimental inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in 1969. Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the names of the user and their machine in 1971 The ARPANET significantly increased the popularity of e-mail, and it became the killer app of the ARPANET. 

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