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MCI Mail (messaging)The first commercial Internet electronic mailservice, launched by MCI in about 1981. Vint Cerf was thechief engineer.
Reading mail was free but you had to pay to send. Usersdiscovered you could communicate for free by sharing anaccount. One user would save a message as a draft and theother would read it and replace it with his response.MCI MailAn email system from MCI that was introduced in 1983. In 1989, MCI Mail was added to the National Science Foundation network, which made MCI the first company to connect email to the Internet. Although it ended in 1994, MCI Mail influenced subsequent email offerings from Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft. See MCI and NSFnet. |