From: Murray McCullough Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:17 PM > Sorry about being late: Raymond Tomlinson, email inventor, sadly passed > on to the 'cyberworld' in March of this year. In this Age of the > Internet, we're communicating with his invention and sharing our hobby > throughoutthe world. Imagine 100 yrs. ago how we would have done this!
Pedantic note: Tomlinson did not invent e-mail. What he did invent was a mechanism by means of which electronic mail programs running on networked computers could communicate with each other. In particular, he decided to use a character with a low frequency of occurrence in text as the indicator that an address in the form of a user identifier of some kind resided on a computer other than the local host. His choice was, of course, the commercial-at (or commercial-a) character. Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/