Email Facts
History of Email
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What is the amount of emails sent in a day? (15 million, 50 billion, 294 billion, 3 trillion)
294 billion (Royal Pingdom)
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What is the year email was invented? (1945, 1968, 1972, 1980)
1972 (nethistory.info)
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What is the percentage of all emails that are spam? (15%, 35%, 54%, 89%)
89% (Royal Pingdom)
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Who invented email? (Ray Tomlinson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, US Government)
Ray Tomlinson (nethistory.info)
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What is the amount of emails sent in the year 2010? (327 million, 504 billion, 107 trillion)
107 trillion (Royal Pingdom)
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What is rumored to be the body of the first ever email? ("Hello", "Testing", "What's for dinner?", "QWERTYUIOP")
QWERTYUIOP (openmap.bbn.com)
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What is the amount of wireless email accounts? (2010) (1.3 million, 50 million, 143 million, 307 million)
307 million (Radicati Group, Inc.)
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What email provider has the most accounts? (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, AOL)
hotmail (email-marketing-reports.com)
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What is the amount of email accounts registered? (1.9 million, 545 million, 3.1 billion, 2.7 trillion)
3.1 billion (http://www.email-marketing-reports.com)
500
Why was email created? (government influence, sounded like a neat idea, for personal communication)
It sounded like a neat idea (inventors.about.com)
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