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　　In the world today, there are more than four billion email users. Email has become an essential part of our lives, especially in the world of business. Perhaps it is not surprising that the origins of email began at the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT.

　　In 1965, computer engineers at MIT developed a system called “MAILBOX.” The system would allow users to leave messages on the computer for others who logged on later. However, these communications were limited to people using the same computer. Still, it planted the seeds of the idea that became email.

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　Six years later, American computer programmer Ray Tomlinson created a communication network system on the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The network system allowed users to send messages to those on other computers, and these messages became email as we now know it. Tomlinson is also credited with using the “@” sign to establish the form of the email address.

　　Although email was invented in the early 1970s, the public at that time was unfamiliar with it. It wasn’t until the late 1980s and early 1990s, when personal computers became more popular, that email became widely adopted.