When was the first e-mail sent? A. 1963 B. 1969 C. 1971 D. 1974
Answer: Option C Solution: Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
