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[ih] propagation of early email?
- Subject: [ih] propagation of early email?
- From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 23:30:50 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
> both were in development in mid-70's and were really useful by the '80s
I'd advance that by several years. Both had graduated from "in development" to
"really useful" by the mid-70's. Unix by '74 or so; for the ARPANET, I'm not
quite sure (I didn't start using it until '77, and it was definitely
functional at that point) - I'll leave that to others to judge.
Noel