<div dir="ltr">dave crocker and john vittal can help here I imagine.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Miles Fidelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" target="_blank">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
Maybe a silly question, but....<br>
<br>
I remember arriving at MIT in the Fall of 1971, immediately getting an<br>
account on the AI lab ITS system, and a month or so later, Ray Tomlinson<br>
sent the first ARPANET email.<br>
<br>
Pretty quickly, a mail program showed up, and within a few months, email<br>
was flowing all around the ARPANET.<br>
<br>
But, I'm wondering about the play-by-play from Ray sending mail between<br>
two adjacent machines at BBN, to mail being available on the early batch<br>
of Internet hosts.<br>
<br>
For those running TENEX, I assume they ftp'd Ray's code (or was it some<br>
precursor to ftp?). But.... how did people actually find out about the<br>
code - after all, there weren't any email lists to announce it on.<br>
<br>
And, for those not running TENEX - how did folks find out enough details<br>
to code up mailers and clients for other machines, and then get the word<br>
out?<br>
<br>
Anybody remember the play-by-play?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Miles Fidelman<br>
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