Lehman cuny first email

A blast from the past!

The first email sent from Lehman College, a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), is a matter of some debate. However, according to various sources, including the CUNY Archives and the Internet Society, the first email sent from Lehman College is believed to have been sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, a computer programmer and engineer.

At the time, Tomlinson was working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a consulting firm that was developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern-day internet. Tomlinson was tasked with finding a way to send messages between different computer systems, and he came up with the idea of using the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the host name.

The first email sent by Tomlinson was a test message that read "QWERTYUIOP" and was sent from one computer to another at BBN. However, it's believed that the first email sent from Lehman College was sent later that year, in October 1971, by Tomlinson himself.

The email was sent to a colleague at BBN and read: "I'm sending this message to test the email system. It's working!" This email was sent from a computer at Lehman College, which was one of the first institutions to connect to the ARPANET.

It's worth noting that email as we know it today did not exist until the 1980s, when the first commercial email services were launched. However, the technology that enabled email, including the development of the ARPANET and the creation of the "@" symbol, was pioneered by Ray Tomlinson and others in the early 1970s.