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Inventor of email passes away

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/07/2016 08:14 AM | source: | 16 comment(s)
Inventor of email passes away

We all take certain thing so for granted as they are integrated deeply into our lives, email is such a thing. Raymond Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of modern email, died Saturday.

Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death. Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network person-to-person email there was no way to send something to a specific person at a specific address.

Tomlinson chose the “@” (”at”) symbol to connect the username with the destination address and it has now become a cultural icon.

"It is with great sadness we acknowledge the passing of our colleague and friend, Ray Tomlinson. A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers.," Raytheon said in a statement. "His work changed the way the world communicates and yet, for all his accomplishments, he remained humble, kind and generous with his time and talents, He will be missed by one and all."

While he was a holder of numerous awards and other accolades, co-workers say he was modest. And, surprisingly, not a frequent checker of email.

According to a biography on the Internet Hall of Fame, Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941. He attended college at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he participated in an internship program with IBM and received a degree in electrical engineering in 1963. He later earned a S.M. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Numerous admirers expressed their appreciation on social media. Gmail tweeted: Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map. #RIP.

Contributing: The Associated Press 







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Darkest
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#5241273 Posted on: 03/07/2016 07:51 PM
What a shame, he had a massive impact on the modern world.

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#5241294 Posted on: 03/07/2016 08:36 PM
But now that I think of it, none of those symbols would be good to use since they have capital and lower-case variants.


You could make a custom keyboard layout using MSKLC and add those symbols yourself. As for lowercase and uppercase, just use Ctrl+Alt+ for the lowercase version, while the uppercase version would be Ctrl+Alt+Shift+.

Sounds like a pain, I know. At least, I got the Alt Gr key on my keyboard, which is Ctrl+Alt in one single key. :D


Maybe layouts including Greek characters used in science already exist... who knows?

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#5241329 Posted on: 03/07/2016 09:40 PM
Funny - now that I think of it, I had no idea what the @ symbol was for before email. I decided to look it up and to my amazement, it is pretty useless. Yes, there are purposes for it, but they're not even used today.

Which gets me to wonder: Of all the symbols known to mankind, they chose @ for the 2 key!? Why!? There are so many better choices that would be used far more often (and might even make programming easier), such as degrees, umlaut, alpha, beta, gamma, theta, omega, division, plus/minus, not-equal, infinity, and so on. And yet, they chose "at".

Ugh...

Well, '@' or 'at' makes a certain kind of sense. Just by the format.
person@provider.country

So you're sending an email to 'person' who has an account at 'provider.country'.

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#5241433 Posted on: 03/08/2016 01:26 AM
The @ symbol has been used in IRC since the later 80's for OP status.

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#5241454 Posted on: 03/08/2016 01:53 AM
In case anyone was interested. Was a cool read about the history of the @ symbol.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-accidental-history-of-the-symbol-18054936/?no-ist

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