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Ray Tomlinson Dead

Ray Tomlinson
KindPerson
Born1941
Died2016
StatusDead
Fieldnetworking
Sourcewww.bbn.com ↗

Sent the first network email (1971) and picked the @ sign to separate user from host.

Sent the first network email (1971) and chose @ as the user-host separator — 'the obvious choice.'\n\nBBN engineer; the @-symbol's global adoption is his one-character legacy.

Sources

  1. bbn.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson