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Think you can trace the rise of the inbox through this high stakes email trivia?

Difficulty

Medium

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Volts

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Before you could sync across devices with IMAP, there was MIT's 1965 messaging experiment and the birth of SMTP. Trace the path from plain text to MIME attachments. Identify the engineers, the early protocols, and the 2007 smartphone that made mobile access a global obsession.