1971 – Bolt Beranek and Ray Tomlinson invent email by adapting an internal messaging program and extending it to use the ARPANET to send messages between sites. Within a year, three quarters of ARPANET traffic is email. 1976 – The Queen sends an email from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern. 1982 – Scott Fahlman kick-starts smiley-culture by

2011 marks an unbelievable 40 years since the creation of email, and with this month also having been the birthday of World Wide Web creator, Tim Berners-Lee, Sky Broadband has put together a factual homage to the lowly email and a celebration of all things online. Engineer Ray Tomlinson is widely credited for sending the first ever email in 1971. It was