Email is developed in Cambridge.

(late 1971) Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail from one computer to another located 10 feet away at Raytheon/Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Although some sources say it read: “qwertyuiop,” Tomlinson later maintains the first messages were “entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them.” He selects the @ symbol to signify addresses on September 2, 1989, and first adds graphics to text in 1993. Other versions of email developed include MAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and MSG at the University of Southern California in 1975. MIT undergraduate Shiva Ayyadurai receives a copyright for software called EMAIL on August 30, 1982.