🔹 Pre-ARPANET Email: Evolution, Not InventionEmail as a concept predates ARPANET and the internet itself. It wasn’t "invented" in one go but evolved from basic digital communication systems. The earliest forms of email-like messaging were just advances on file directory systems, allowing users to place a message in another user’s directory for them to find when they logged in, akin to leaving a note on someone's desk. 📂 One of the first examples of this was MAILBOX, developed at MIT in...
