"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages." I unders

"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages." I understand the internet had a big bump in popularity in '95, but wasn't the "formative stage" of email much earlier?