Q & A by Maninder Singh

Question:

QUESTION: When was the first email sent, and who sent it?

Answer:

The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, an engineer at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), a company that was a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense's ARPANET project. The first email was sent between two ARPANET-connected computers.