On Thu, May 19, 2016, Rich Alderson wrote: > 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.
OH! He invented the at sign! ;) -- Eric Christopherson