Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies

Macworld
Mar 6, 2016, 11:38 pm1.3k ptsHot
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email and putting the now ubiquitous “@” sign in addresses, has died at the age of 74. Tomlinson, who helped in the evolution of single-computer email into electronic mail that could send communications across network connections to other hosts, used the…

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