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In the 1970s, Email Was Special Gizmodo 2/9/2021 Matt Novak © Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Getty Images) Computers and magnetic tape storage at the U.S. Department of Justice circa 1973. What was the internet like in the 1970s? It was an incredibly small community of university researchers, government employees, military contractors, and more than a few spies. But those people all built and tinkered with the earliest technologies to create something that would transform the lives of everyone reading this message today. One of the most vital technologies to emerge from this period was electronic mail or “network mail” as it was known at the time something we call email today. And while we may think of email as integral to our experience of the internet, it wasn’t always a given. Email had to be invented, but once it was, people loved it.

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