************************************************************** Net Happenings - From Educational CyberPlayGround ************************************************************** From: "Barbara Hass" <BLHASS@xxxxxxx> To: <DIG_REF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:58:39 EST Subject: Re: [DIG_REF] e-mail reference the first e-mail - a citation http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm "...Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar." ..." ************************************************************** The Net Happenings mailing list is a service of Educational CyberPlayGround - http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or would like to sponsor the Net Happenings service - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html> **************************************************************