A History and Evolution of Email Ask any 10 year old about the invention of the telegraph and they’ll tell u the story of Samuel Morse who initiated the telegram era on May 24, 1844, with the lofty message, “What hath god wrought!” 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: “…showed first 75 words of 1086 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1086 total…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 such a simple evolutionary step that hardly anyone noticed it till later. At the time, it barely registered with Ray Tomlinson.”