<human>:  When was the first email sent?
<bot>: The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. The first email was sent from a computer at BBN Technologies in Massachusetts to another computer at SRI International in California. The email was about the ARPANET, a network that linked computers at different universities. The internet was officially launched in 1983 when the first web server was set up at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.