Email was introduced at MIT in 1965 and completes this-year ( 2015 ) fifty years. Ray Thomlinson, a computer engineer, sent an electronic message for the first time in 1971. Queen Elizabeth becomes the first head of state to send an electronic message for the first time in 1971. Queen Elizabeth becomes the first head of state to send an electronic message in 1976. In 1977, a standard format called RFC 733 was developed to govern the electronic exchange of mail across the world. In 1978, the first electronic advertisement was sent. The term E-mail was first used in 1982. IBM releases Lotus Notes 1.0 in 1989. In 1992, Microsoft Outlook for MS-DOS was released. The world’s first PDA with email capability was unveiled by BellSouth and IBM. Hotmail was launched by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996, which was bought by Microsoft in 1997 for $ 400 million. In 1997, Yahoo! introduces, Yahoo! Mail. In 1998, the word ‘spam’ was introduced for the first time in the Oxford English Dictionary.Warner Brothers released You’ve Got Mail in 1998. A fraudulent email about Bill Gates proposing to share his wealth circulates in 1999. The US FTC codifies spam laws in 2003. In 2004, multi-media emails ( MMS ) are introduced. In 2004, LOL and other Internet lingo was officially recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. SPF to verify the email sender’s identify was established in 2005. 2007 — this is the year Google launches GMail. The same year anti- phishing protocol is adopted. In 2011, there was a study on most common email passwords. E-mail was changed to email in 2011. Sony was hacked and email leaked in 2014. Apple Watch has been launched in 2015, which brings email on the wrist.