"Almost by accident", that's how Raymond Tomlinson describes his invention of one of the biggest communications phenomena ever created (Dictionary, n.d.). The computer application took mere minutes to construct. Tomlinson had no idea what he had made. But email, whether he knew it or not, was to become an important part of the computer world and Raymond Tomlinson was to become infamous.

Email is quite possibly the most important computer application ever created. Even the most primitive of computer systems comes with access to email. The most novice computer users know how to send and receive email and the slowest Internet provider will get a user to an email server. As the first major computer application, email is a huge part of daily life, communicating between students and teachers, doctors and patients. It can travel across offices, cities, countries, even over oceans. As the inventor of email...