Subscribe

    About

    University of Email (UoE) is an initiative by Pankaj Kumar who is an email enthusiastic. This was started in Jan 2018 when he left Zeta Global from Deliverability position and Joined an Online Travel Agency as a CRM consultant in 2017. During this time he thought to conclude all his learning in a document. He felt digital document is always more handy than the offline ones – hence he launched University of Email as an Email Knowledge Center.

    Fact About Email:

    • 1961 Tom Van Vleck – Message transaction multi-user, single computer
    • 1969 Leonard Kleinrock – Message transaction, two computers
    • 1971 Ray Tomlinson– Message transaction, multi-user, multi-computer
    • 1973 Vlnton Cerf, Rort Kahn – TCP/IP
    • 1973 Bobtca-Ethernet
    • 1977 Dave Crock J. Vittal, K. Pogran, D.A. Henderson – RFC 733
    • 1978 The Challenge: (V.A.) Shiva Ayyadurai is asked by Les Michelson to create the full-scale electronic version of the interoffice paper mail system in use at UMDNJ. Shiva creates first prototype. He calls it “email”
    • 1979 Email System at UMDNJ: Email provides UMDNJ users Inbox? Outbox, Folders, the Memo (To, From, Sublact, Data Cc, Bcc), Attachments, etc., and processes such as Compose, Foard, Sort, and others with easy-to-use interface.
    • 1980 Using Email: Email use grows at UMDNJ. More users, secretaries and doctors, across departments offices and groups are added on to the email system.
    • 1981 Westinghouse Award: Warting house Award, also own as the “Baby Nobal’s” recognizes Email system for its original innovation.
    • 1982 Copyright for Email: (V.A.) Shiva Ayyadurai receives US Copyright for “Email”. August 30,
    • 1982: Registration TXU-11 1 -775
    • 1985 Offline Email Readers: Development of offline readers allow email users to store email on their own personal computers. Read and compose replies without actually being connected to the network.
    • 1988 EUDORA: Steve Dorner develops Eudora. First commercial product to be widely used for reading and sending email on Local Area Networks (LAN).
    • 1989 Compuserve & MCI Mail: Compuserve and MCI Mall become first formally sanctioned email carriers connected to the internet.
    • 1991 Lotus Notes: Ray Ozzie and Mitch Kapor release major version of Lotus Notes (2.0)
    • 1992 Microsoft Outook: Microsoft releases its answer to Lotus Notes. MS Outlook
    • 1993 America Online (AOL): AOL offers an easily accessible internet based email system
    • 1995 EchoMail Launched: EchoMail, the first integrated Email Management system to help businesses handle increasing volumes of inbound EMAIL AT&T first customer.
    • 1996 HoTMaiL: Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launch HoTMail, soon becomes most used internet based email system
    • 1997 Yahoo: Yahoo Mail offered as an alternative to HoTMaiL. It too provides web-based access through a browser.
    • 1999 Blackberry: Blackberry makes accessing email via mobile phones more accessible. Mobile email is the new buzzword.
    • 2003 CAN-SPAM: President George W. Bush signs into law penalties for unsolicited email.
    • 2004 Email at Google: Google launches Gmail on April Fool’s Day, after a prolonged four year Beta.
    • 2004: DKIM authentication technique was discovered.
    • 2004 Email at Google: Google launches Gmail on April Fool’s Day, after a prolonged four year Beta.
    • 2005 Email Address Verification: SPF released to validate email addresses to control SPAM. SPF release spawns other validation systems.
    • 2009 iPhone 3G:iPhone and other mobile devices make email even more accessible.
    • 2011 E-mail to Email: Associated Press Stylebook declares the use of email without hyphen “-”, as the standard
      unaware of U.S. Copyright for “email”.
    • 2012 Smithsonian Honors Email: Papers, computer code, and artifacts documenting the invention of email by VA Shiva Ayyadurai are accepted into the permanent archives of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
    • 2013 Innovation Corps Launched: VA Shiva Ayyadurai and Dr. Leslie P. Michelson launch Innovation Corps to foster innovation for youth across the globe, in inner cities and villages, so more innovators such as email are possible.
    • 2016: Gmail introduced postmaster tool.
    • 2021: BIMI was discovered.

    With the internet becoming increasingly accessible, the number of e-mails sent and received globally has increased each year since 2017. In 2021, there were an estimated 319.6 billion e-mails sent and received daily around the world. This figure is projected to increase to 376.4 billion daily e-mails by 2025. Despite the increasing popularity of messengers, chat apps and social media, e-mail has managed to remain central to digital communication and continues to grow in uptake. By 2025, the number of global e-mail users is expected to reach a total of 4.6 billion – an approximate six hundred thousand increase in users, up from 4 billion in 2020. Not only that, when it comes to online advertising e-mail has seen higher click-through-rates than on social media. In Belgium and Germany, these were 5.5 and 4.3 percent respectively – compared to the 1.3 percent global average CTR for social media during the same time period.

    Considering above figures its easily said that email has a lot of potential in digital marketing and so people should talk about in order to accelerate their revenue. University of Email is a web home for those who want to discuss, learn and share their experience related to this field.

    Please join our LinkedIn group at – University of Email, LinkedIn
    Like and follow on Facebook – University of Email, Facebook
    Follow us on Twitter – University of Email, Twitter

    and do subscribe our newsletter by typing your email address at just right upper corner.

    For any feedback or query please write to: blogs@universityofemail.com

    You may start with these topics today!