Little Known Email Facts鲜为人知的电子邮件趣事
作者: 王兴敏
There are many things in our long history of whichwe rarely think about, email included. However, in theprocess of their development there were unpredictable1, absurd2 and funny facts.Email is one such really fascinating invention. Few people know when the firstletter was sent, and why we separate the domains3 with the“@”syntax4. Therefore,we invite you to the time machine on key and interesting points in thedevelopment of email. Let’s go!
在我们漫长的历史中,有很多事情我们很少思考,包括电子邮件。但在其发展过程中,也出现了一些不可预测的、荒诞滑稽的事实。电子邮件就是这样一项非常吸引人的发明。很少有人知道第一封信是什么时候发出来的,以及为什么我们用“@”来区分域名。因此,我们邀请你来时间机器上看看电子邮件发展中的重点和有趣之处。我们走吧!
1. First Email
1. 第一封电子邮件
The father of the first personalized email was American programmer RaymondSamuel Tomlinson. At the end of 1971, he sent an email to a nearby computer. Itwas probably something: “QWERTYUIOP,” as Tomlinson himself later said,because he had forgotten the exact text.
第一封个性化电子邮件之父是美国程序员雷蒙德·塞缪尔·汤姆林森。1971年底, 他给附近的一台电脑发了一封电子邮件。它可能是这样的:“QWERTYUIOP,”汤姆林森自己后来是这样说的,因为他已经忘记了确切的文本是什么样子。
2. E-mail or Email?
2. E-mail 还是Email?
No matter how you answer this question, you will still be right. Tomlinson, theinventor of modern email, was leaning5 toward a hyphen6. In one interview, helaughed at this subject: “I’m just trying to maintain a global supply7 of hyphens.Plus, the term has been used long enough to drop a hyphen. However, it seems tobe a losing battle. ”And query statistics on Google confirms this fact.
不管你怎么回答这个问题,你都是对的。现代电子邮件的发明者汤姆林森倾向于使用连字符。在一次采访中,他笑着回答了这个话题:“我只是想维持连字符的全球供应。此外,这个词的使用时间已经长到可以省略连字符了。然而,这似乎是一场注定要失败的战斗。”而谷歌上的查询统计数据证实了这一事实。
3. The New Meaning of @ in the Digital World
3. 数字世界中@ 的新含义
Raymond Tomlinson also used the syntax “@”to understand which host themail was sent from.
雷蒙德·汤姆林森也使用语法“@”来理解邮件是从哪台主机发送的。
“@”made it possible for letters to enter the inbox of the addresses, and theaddresses themselves began to look like this: patrik@computer1.
“@” 使信件能够进入收件人的收件箱, 地址本身开始变成这样:patrik@computer1。
4. The First Email from Space
4. 来自太空的第一封电子邮件
The first letter from outer space came on August 28, 1991. It was sent from aMac laptop. Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James S. Adamson sent a message totheir colleague Marcia Ivins, a shuttle8 communicator at the Johnson Space Center.Here is its exact content:
第一封来自太空的电子邮件是1991 年8 月28 日发出的。它来自一台苹果笔记本电脑。宇航员香农·卢西德和詹姆斯·S.亚当森给他们的同事玛西娅·伊文斯发送了一条信息。玛西娅·伊文斯是约翰逊航天中心的航天飞机通讯员。邮件的具体内容如下:
“Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLinkfrom space. Having a great time, wish you were here! Hasta la vista, baby...we’llbe back! ”
“你好地球!来自STS-43 机组人员的问候。这是第一个来自太空的苹果文件。希望你生活愉快,真希望你在这里!再见,宝贝……我们会回来的! ”
5. The Most Common Password
5. 最常用密码
The most popular email protection password is 123456. This fact appeared in2009, when more than 10,000 Hotmail passwords leaked9 to the public access.
最流行的电子邮件保护密码是123456。这个事实在2009 年就出现了,当时有超过1 万个Hotmail 密码被泄露给了公众。
(英语原文选自: findinterestingfacts.com)