10 Historically Significant Email Domains

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Electronic Mail began with informal methods of using shared files to pass messages. Most developers of early mainframes and minicomputers developed similar, but generally incompatible, electronic mail applications. Over time, a complex web of gateways and routing systems linked many of them. In 1971, the first Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) network mail was sent, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the @–symbol designating the user’s system address. Over a series of RFCs ("Request-for-Comments" standards documents) conventions were refined for sending mail messages over FTP (the File Transfer Protocol). Proprietary electronic mail systems began to emerge in the 1970s and early 1980s. IBM developed a primitive in-house solution for office automation over the period 1970–1972, and then in 1974 replaced it with OFS (Office System) which provided electronic mail transfer between individuals. CompuServe began offering electronic mail designed for intraoffice memos in 1978. The development team for the Xerox Star, as well as work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Hewlett-Packard continued to push 'e-mail' forward. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol was implemented on the ARPANET in 1983. Finally a combination of factors made the current Internet suite of SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email protocols the standard. During the 1980s and 1990s, use of email became common in government, including miltary/defense, at universities, and in business. Starting with the advent of webmail clients in the mid-1990s, use of email extended to the rest of the public. Here's a list of Historically Significant Email Domains.