The first email was QWERTYUIOP In the history of the Internet, there are many myths about who was the first user, and who could put an end to this great invention. However, if we have a curious and certain fact about the Internet, it is about who was the first person to use email and send an email. It is Raymond Samuel Tomlinson. He created an Arpanet system to send emails between two different users. In an interview, he declared that the test message was “QWERTYUIOP.”