Email is defined by Google as messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. With the creation of the email the world has been more connected than every before, we are now able to send a message from the US all the way across the world to Japan in a matter of seconds all thanks to the creation of Email. But we cannot begin to discuss the creation of email without first discussing ARPA and ARPANET. ARPA short for Advanced Research Projects Agency was created to help fund and promote research in 1957 after the Soviet Union created Sputnik. So in 1966 ARPA created ARPANET, which is short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, to help connect Universities and Research centers share their findings. So after the creation of ARPANET email was slowly beginning to take shape when messages were being sent via file directory. This type of mailing was when someone sent a message through a mainframe, which was an unused computer ca