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When was the very first e-mail sent?

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When was the very first e-mail sent?
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The first e-mail message was sent by Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer, in 1971. The test e-mail was sent to himself from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts.