It’s hard to believe, but email has been around for 45 years. You read that right. Don’t adjust your screen resolution. That’s a four and a five. Ray Tomlinson, a contractor who was working on the U.S. Department of Defense’s ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) project, is credited with inventing email way back in 1972.

It’s hard to believe, but email has been around for 45 years. You read that right. Don’t adjust your screen resolution. That’s a four and a five. Ray Tomlinson, a contractor who was working on the U.S. Department of Defense’s ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) project, is credited with inventing email way back in 1972.