[ih] First E-Mail ?

[Vint Cerf]

this could easily have been a message exchange between two users on the
same timeshare host.

v


On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:05 PM Bernie Cosell <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:

> On November 1, 2019 13:58:56 Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Checking with the “Elders” the veracity of a recent article in local news
>> about Ben Barker (a San Antonian) sent the first E-Mail Oct 1st, 1969.
>>
>> Can anybody confirm that?
>>
>> My recollection is that Ray Tomlinson was the first one to send an E-Mail
>> through ARPANet.
>>
>
> ben slmost certainly didn't send an email through the {then 4 node}
> ARPANET in 1969.  the hosts were still struggling just to get connected.
>
> /bernie\
>
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