What do we know about email?
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At ShuttleCloud most of us are email geeks. We live and breathe it. We’ve migrated a bucket load of them for starters (over 50 trillion!). Life would be much different if Ray Tomlinson hadn’t invented them 50 odd years ago.
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Here’s some more facts about our electronic companion. Let us know if we’ve missed any. We’d love to hear more!
- The first email address was tomlinson@bbn-tenexa
- The first free email providers were AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo (and they are now still in the top 10)
- In 1991 the email reached space by sending its first email by the STS-43 Atlantis crew
- In 2021, 319.6 billion emails were sent per day
- There are over 5.5 billion email accounts around the world
- The average person opens their inbox about 15 times per day
- The estimated amount of emails sent in a work environment is 100 per day
- Each second there 3.1 million emails are sent
- Gmail is the largest email provider with more than 1 billion accounts
Who knows how email will evolve and where it will take us!? But it’ll surely be a big part of our lives for years to come. We hope!