Revolution of Email

Year	Revolution of E-mail
1965	Email was introduced in MIT
1971	Ray Tomlinson sends  the first network email on ARPANET
1977	A standard format (RFC733) is proposed to enable sending email across the internet
1977	U.S. postal services begins to see email as potential threat to mail volumes
1982	First known use of the word ,“email”
1982	Simple  Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is introduced
1988	The first  commercial email product, Microsoft  Mail is released for  the Mac
1989	CompuServe offers Internet Connectivity and email service to its subscribers
1989	IBM releases  Lotus Notes 1.0
1990	HTML  Email is introduced , allowing for rich formatting within messages
1990	Email spam begins
1992	Microsoft Outlook  for MS-DOS has been released
1993	AOL and Delphi connect their proprietary  email systems to the Internet
1993	BellSouth and IBM  Unveil  Simon Personal Communicator, the world’s first  mobile  phone with a PDA features including  email capability
1996	Sabeer Bhatia  and Jack Smith introduced “Hot Mail” one of the first free Web- based email services
1997	Microsoft Outlook 97 was released, offering a central hub that includes, Email, Scheduling, Contact Management, Task Management , and a journal module
1997	Yahoo introduced “Yahoo Mail”
1998	“You’ve Got Mail” premiers at the box office
1998	Microsoft outlook 2000 includes the ability to customize and incorporate personal, corporate and web-based information in one place
2000	Microsoft  introduces Entourage mail for MAC
2003	Microsoft Outlook 2003 includes junk mail and Anti-phishing filters and the ability to receive  mail from multiple accounts
2004	The  Federal Trade Commission codifies email spam laws
2006	Social Networking sites Face book was opens to the general public
2006	Outlook 2007 was released, with native support for RSS  feed and the ability to receive the messages
2007	Google makes Gmail available to the public Worldwide.
2010	Microsoft Outlook 2010 is released and includes Outlook Social Connector, Ignore conversation and Conversation clean up.
2010	Outlook mobile on Window phone7 and Outlook for Mac 2011are released.
2010	Face book announces plans to incorporate Microsoft Office Web Apps into its messaging system.
2011	Associated Press Style book changes “e-mail” to “email”.