Luca Manunza, then a member of the CRS4’s Computational genomics group, headed by Gianluigi Zanetti, on February 20th, 1995 released publicly the code with which he created the first web-mail.
The web-mail was not developed in the framework of the research project Manunza was working on, but thanks to the intuition of Zanetti to address a practical need: to enable the researchers who worked together in the group to read e-mail messages in a simpler way not tied to an application or a single computer but through a simple browser.
