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May 10, 2016 12:56 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cGF357uKVQ4/rip-ray-tomlinson-email-inven.html
UPDATED RIP Ray Tomlinson, email inventor and at-sign popularizer
UPDATE This is a couple months old -- I read "Mar 5" as "May 5." My apologies.
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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