The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today.
In 1867 Schwendener announced to the scientific world his hypothesis that lichen was formed by two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. At the time his theory was largely rejected, but it was afterwards proven to be factual.
SNDMSG (Wikipedia) SNDMSG was an early electronic mail program, chiefly notable because it was used to send what is considered the first networked email.
