Title : 
On Behalf of the Message [Scanning Our Past]
         
        
            Author : 
van Kampen, Hans
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Kettingweg 1-6, Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Well before electronic mail service via the internet became widely appreciated in the last decade of the 20th century, there were look-a-like operations, not in the public domain, providing the same basic service.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Electronic mail; History; Message passing; Message systems; Telecommunications;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Proceedings of the IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/JPROC.2011.2124230