Today, email is an indispensable part of our daily lives – from organizing business meetings to paying the phone bill or receiving your kid’s progress report. But it has not always been the case. In fact, the email technology was only invented more than a half century ago. In this article, we’re going to talk about when was an email address created and how it has evolved over the years.

The first electronic message was sent between adjacent PDP-10 computers at BBN Technologies in 1971, connected to ARPANET. It was a simple message, but it was the start of an era that has revolutionized the way we communicate.

Investigating Email Origins: When Was an Email Address Created

In the 1970s, the use of email grew rapidly among corporations. IBM developed a primitive in-house system called OFS (Office System) which later became IBM Profs. DEC’s ALL-IN-1 system was also used in the early ’80s and Hewlett-Packard launched HPMAIL in 1982, which went on to become the world’s most popular email program.

By the early 1990s, email had become an integral part of our personal and professional lives. It was the year when you started hearing that iconic voice notification – You’ve got mail! It was a message sent from astronauts Shannon Lucid and Jame C. Adamson on the Atlantis space shuttle using a Macintosh portable.

By the mid-’90s, webmail had started making its mark. Phillip Hallam-Baker, a cyber security professional at CERN, developed the first version of what was later known as webmail, but it was not released to the public until Lotus introduced its cc: Mail in 1995 and Hewlett-Packard launched Hotmail in 1996.