The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today.
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which were borne not of bloude nor of the will of the flesshe nor yet of the will of man: but of God. John 1:13 TYN
SNDMSG (Wikipedia) SNDMSG was an early electronic mail program, chiefly notable because it was used to send what is considered the first networked email.
