According to Paul Buchheit, Gmail Engineer – email turns 34 this month, and it took 34 years journey to become Gmail.  To most of us, electronic mail is a relatively recent phenomenon. But the first e-mail was sent 30 years ago, after a programmer came up with the “@” symbol format for e-mail addresses, writes

Three simple keystrokes gave a college professor his mark in the history books and gave the world a new wave of digital communication. Multiple sources credit Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman with being the first to put together the colon-hyphen-parenthesis combination to create a “digital smiley face”. In an online message board at 11:44