Mail Clients and Browsers
The internet began as ARPAnet, a packet-switched network sponsored by the US government, in September 1969. Linus Torvalds wouldn’t be born until December of that same year. In 1991, when Linux emerged, only academics, researchers, and the military were on the internet. For most people, being online meant connecting with a v.32 modem, at the astonishing speed of 9600 BPS (baud per second) to a Bulletin Board System (BBS), or an online service. The internet as we knew it could be accessed through ASCII-based applications such as Pine and Elm for email, using command line programs such as ftp and Archie to search and share files. The most advanced tool available was Gopher, a Yahoo-like guide to internet resources. Then, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and everything changed.
Today, internet access has improved a lot with higher speeds. This has led to the emergence of different tools for reading emails and surfing the web.
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