{"id":792,"date":"2007-04-02T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:34:21","slug":"a-brief-history-of-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History Of Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/\" target=\"_blank\">no email Fridays<\/a> here before and now this morning I&nbsp;kick up <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.careerjournal.com\/~r\/wsj\/career_journal\/~3\/105982805\/20070402-totty.html\" target=\"_blank\">this CareerJournal.com article<\/a> regarding the use of other communication channels.&nbsp; Instant messaging is popular here at Select Metrix and does work well as a companion tool to email.&nbsp; In case you didn&#8217;t know the history of email:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Electronic mail was invented in 1971, but wasn&#8217;t widely adopted by businesses until the late 1980s, with the arrival of Lotus Notes and other programs. Since then, its use in the corporate world has exploded: Research firm Radicati Group Inc. estimates <em>the average corporate email user sent and received about 171 messages a day<\/em> last year, a number expected to double by 2010.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1971 is surprising to me &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know email was that old.&nbsp; I&#8217;m old enough to remember VAX accounts being <em>the thing<\/em> in college.&nbsp; 171 messages a day also surprises me that it is that high.&nbsp; Maybe this no email Friday has some legs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve discussed no email Fridays here before and now this morning I&nbsp;kick up this CareerJournal.com article regarding the use of other communication channels.&nbsp; Instant messaging is popular here at Select Metrix and does work well as a companion tool to email.&nbsp; In case you didn&#8217;t know the history of email: Electronic mail was invented in 1971, but wasn&#8217;t widely adopted by businesses until the late 1980s, with the arrival of Lotus Notes and other programs. Since then, its use in the corporate world has exploded: Research firm Radicati Group Inc. estimates the average corporate email user sent and received about 171 messages a day last year, a number expected to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-cM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1082,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/corporate-blogging-violations\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":0},"title":"Corporate Blogging Violations","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From Podcasting News - Nearly One Out Of Ten Companies Has Fired A Blogger: Nearly one out of ten large companies has fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, according to a survey conducted by Proofpoint, a company that specializes in corporate messaging security. 19 percent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1155,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/dining-at-the-corporate-cafeteria\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":1},"title":"Dining At The Corporate Cafeteria","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, this may only interest me, but I am fascinated by the large corporate environment. So it is obvious that I had to read BusinessWeek.com's The Most Innovative Corporate Cafeterias. Of course is there is the obligatory Google mention to start the article: Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters\u20ac\u201ddubbed the Googleplex\u20ac\u201dboasts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":187,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/corporate-policies-regarding-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":2},"title":"Corporate Policies Regarding Blogs","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogs are popping up at 1 per second according to the latest Sales&Marketing Management email. Here are some interesting facts regarding developing corporate communications (sorry, no link): --Just over a quarter of employers have terminated employees for e-mail misuse. Another 2 percent have dismissed workers for inappropriate IM chat. 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