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Summary
email is a service on Internet[1]. email ranks in the top 7% of service on internet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28,767 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Raymond Tomlinson[3]
- Creator: Raymond Tomlinson[4]
- Instance of: communication technology[5]
- Named after: mail[6]
- Subclass of: service on Internet[7], letter[8], digital media[9], message traffic[10], telecommunications application[11]
- Part of: Internet[12]
- Commons category: E-mail[13]
- Unicode character: 📧[14]
- Has part(s): Post Office Protocol 3[15], Internet Message Access Protocol[16], Simple Mail Transfer Protocol[17], Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions[18]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1971[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Email[20]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/email[21]
- Main Wikidata property: P968[22]
- Different from: Email[23], email message[24]
- History of topic: 삼척 나들목[25]
- Uses: blind carbon copy[26], carbon copy[27]
- Permanent duplicated item: email[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[29], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[30]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for email include Email[31], a mobile app[32], founded in 2008[33].
Why It Matters
email has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] email is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]
Entities named for email include Email[31], a mobile app[32], founded in 2008[33].