THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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SMTP and the Protocol That Standardized Internet Mail Transfer

SMTP gave Internet hosts a durable command-and-reply protocol for relaying electronic mail, while separate standards defined message syntax, routing, extensions, and the modern mail transport system.

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Network Email and the @ Sign: How Messaging Became the Internet’s First Social Application

Ray Tomlinson's ARPANET mail experiment joined local mailbox software with network file transfer and established the user@host addressing convention that became a universal symbol of online identity.

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