Did you know that email as been around for the last 40 YEARS? It's only gotten popular in 1995 when AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe became popular and email services like Hotmail came up around 1996 and 1997. Most would be surprised to know that the first email that was ever sent was from an engineer named Ray Tomlinson on June 8th, 1971. While email has been very useful in communicating with co-workers, family members, and friends in the last forty years, it has slowly started to become less of a necessity in the past ten. Why? The answer lies in the rise of social media.