Website review: E-mail inventor: I didnt foresee s...
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itneedssaying rated 4 months ago- From the page: "Since its beginnings in a computer lab at the offices of a firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, e-mail has become one of the most important communications platforms the world has known, and from the various services available â€" Yahoo!, Hotmail, and the ubiquitous Outlook â€" Britons send an estimated three billion messages a day. But it has also given rise to the menace of spam or junk e-mail, which most of us spend 52 hours a year sorting and deleting, according to one estimate, and armed cyber-criminals with one of their most highly effective weapons, capable of proliferating viruses and even reducing the computer systems of entire Governments to a flickering mess. Did Mr Tomlinson have any idea quite the havoc - not to mention large-scale criminal enterprise - his creation would be capable of unleashing? "Absolutely not. At that time, the number of people who used e-mail was very small - maybe between 500 to 1,000. So if you were getting spam, you'd know who was sending it. You'd be able to say to them: that's not a good thing to do." "It was only when e-mail came to be widely used that the possibility of sending a message anonymously emerged," said Mr Tomlinson, who is 66 and today still works for BBN Technologies, the company in whose employment he achieved the breakthrough that would bring the world closer together, aged 29."
