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May 10, 2016 12:56 pm PDT
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RIP Ray Tomlinson, email inventor and at-sign popularizer
Ray Tomlinson created the first networked email system in 1971 while working on his MIT doctorate and collaborating on the early ARPAnet at BBN; he used @ -- the at symbol -- to separate the username from the machinename because "it did not appear in user names and did not have any meaning in the TENEX paging program." (more…)
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