Medlar on 7/3/2016 at 17:27
Ray Tomlinson, one of the pioneers of email, has passed away at the age of 74, according to reports in Australia.
New York-born Tomlinson is best known for selecting the @ symbol to connect a username with the destination address email, making it a central part of the communications process. While working for Bolt Beranek and Newman, the company that developed the first program for sending network email, Tomlinson chose the symbol — which was fairly obscure at the time — to differentiate local and global emails on a list. From there, it became the designation for address formats, which exploded as email went global as a communications medium.
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http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/06/rip-ray-tomlinson/?ncid=tcdaily)
Who would of thought the @ would have become what it has.
bjack on 7/3/2016 at 17:34
Sad to hear about his death, but what an interesting tid bit about "@" . Someone had to think of it. Now we know who did it. Thanks Medlar.
Queue on 8/3/2016 at 06:42
Returned to sender.
nickie on 8/3/2016 at 10:12
:) I was going to post that but had to go out. Interesting article.
