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Ray Tomlinson

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(person)Ray Tomlinson - An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the firstelectronic mail} program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
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lt;strong>Late 1971: </strong>The first emails are sent over the ARPANET network, by Ray Tomlinson - who would also propose the @ sign as being a crucial part of email addresses.
Internet turns 40 today... or does it? by International Business Times - US ed.
1972 Ray Tomlinson brings e-mail to the nationwide Arpanet network.
INTERNET'S MILESTONES by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Computer programmer Ray Tomlinson developed the use of the @ sign to separate the names of the user and their machine.
Time Traveller: CULTURE CHANGERS by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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