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Email Standard Celebrates A 35th Anniversary
- The Register, Thursday, August 3, 2017 12:17 PM
It has been 35 years since the launch of RFC 821, the mail transfer protocol that set the stage for the sending of billions of email messages. Jonathan B. Postel unveiled the standard in a 1982 paper. Here’s an affectionate look back at the technology that led to modern email.
