No man lives who sent the world’s first e-mail, and created a typical e-mail address using the @ sign. The death of 74-year-old Ray Tomlinson said his employer, the American defense company Raytheon.
As reported on Monday the agency AP, Tomlinson died on Saturday. Raytheon, passing on Sunday the news of his death, did not give any details.
In 1971, Tomlinson, working on the network ARPANET, which was the precursor to the Internet, modified the existing time protocols so that you can send electronic messages between two computers. Previously, only users of the same computer can communicate to such messages. Computers were then, years before the era of PC-s, large machines, used by many people.
Tomlinson came also the idea of using the @ sign in e-mail addresses. This sign was originally used by traders to indicate the unit price of goods – eg. “Ten articles @ 1.95 dollar.”
The use of this character in the e-mail Tomlinson seemed logical, the more that it was the only a sign that none of the people using the ARPANET did not use in their user name.
the magazine “Forbes” wrote in 1998 that Tomlinson showed his first e-mail to colleagues, asking them to not proclaimed because it was not something that had to deal with at work. When the e-mail began to be omnipresent, Tomlinson lived to worldwide recognition for his invention.
Tomlinson could not remember what was the content of his first e-mail. It was a test message – as he wrote on his website – probably contain just a string from the top row of the keyboard – QWERTYUIOP or something like that.
“Thank you, Ray Tomlinsonie, for inventing e- mail and make famous the @ sign “- is written on the official profile e-mail Google – Gmail – on Twitter. (PAP)
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