Inventor of Email as we know it, Ray Tomlinson, has died

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[quote]If you’ve ever sent an e-mail, you can thank Raymond Samuel Tomlinson for putting the @ symbol there.On Friday, Tomlinson died of suspected heart failure. He was 74.

Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941, and he earned a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1967, he joined Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a company that played a key role in the development of the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet.

In 1971, according to the Internet Hall of Fame, he wrote the first ARPANET mail client, combining the existing SNDMSG and CPYNET programs. Tomlinson himself came up with the idea of using the @ symbol as a way to separate local e-mails from those that could be sent to external networks through the user@host syntax.[/quote]

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[B]​1941-2016[/B]
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[Reflex F.N.]

I hope he rests in peace.
He has contributed so much to the world.

[Sableye]

@raytomlinson thanks for the @ sign

[benzi2k7]

[email][e-mail][/email]

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It's staggering just how pivotal email has been to the modern commercial age. I entered industry just as emails were coming in and honestly, I am now dumbfounded as to how the world worked and businesses operated before emails were commonplace.

Sending a document with hundreds of pages is now instantaneous (more or less), whereas thirty years ago it would have to have been faxed if your company was fortunate enought to have a working fax machine or sent by the postal service which could take weeks depending on where in the world you were dispatching to.

The number of times a document has been required hundreds of miles away and email has facilitated that document being received in near realtime is astonishing. It's saved time, money, effort and has no doubt been a huge factor in changing how we do business.

Rest in peace.

[pr00ch]

The man who invented email was born during wwii

Pretty crazy

[Fourier]

Quite spooky