Folks,
Wikipedia's article on email includes the text:
The first email ever sent contained the letters "Qwertyuiop".
This is repeated in other articles on the net.
Seems like such a claim should be validated. I don't recall ever hearing about
it and would assume that it's incorrect, since I haven't seen any definitive
agreement on what the first email system was, nevermind what its first message
contained.
My understanding is that email was a feature of the first timesharing systems,
which puts the likely first message in the first half of the 1960s.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net