[ih] The Atlantic on Email

[John Day]

Agree with Noel, it was widely used within the ARPANET . . . almost immediately as I remember.

You have to wonder about a historian who can’t interpret the historical record in context.


> On Jan 11, 2016, at 10:34, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Joly MacFie
> 
>> At first, email was useful, but it wasn't widely used
> 
> Probably worth noting that that was because the number of people who had
> access to it was limited; not that many people had ARPANet access. Among that
> group, though, it was pretty widely used; it was pretty much the original
> 'killer app'.
> 
> 	Noel
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