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Check the tally number next to your Inbox to see if you have new messages. Gmail checks for new messages every two minutes and updates the tally. Gmail saves a "conversation" of each original message and all replies. When you open a message, the newest in the conversation is on top with...
According to Darwin Magazine: Prime Movers, the first email message was sent in 1971 by an engineer named Ray Tomlinson. Before this, you could only send messages to users on a single machine. Tomlinson's breakthrough was the ability to send messages to other machines on the Internet, using...
Gmail checks for new messages every two minutes and updates the tally. Gmail saves a "conversation" of each original message and all replies. When you open a message, the newest in the conversation is on top with the rest stacked below. To read all the messages in the conversation, click...