New Wearable Technology: Dead Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of e-mail but did not use them too

Monday, March 7, 2016

Dead Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of e-mail but did not use them too – Rai News

Goodbye to Dad ‘snail’ Ray Tomlinson. It was he who introduced the @ symbol in the email addresses, a symbol that has been adopted today by Twitter and various other uses in computing. Considered one of the pioneers of the Internet, the American programmer was 74 years old

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7 March 2016 Considered one of the pioneers of the Internet, the first to guess the potential ‘of electronic messages in 1971 and who introduced the use of the symbol’ @ ‘in the e-mail addresses, Ray Tomlinson died at age 74. The report American media, which speak of a heart attack as the cause of death. The American computer programmer was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, but his co-workers remember him as a humble and modest man who did not even used so often the e-mails.

Born in 1941, graduated from the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston, Tomlinson wrote the first email in 1971: designed the program in secret, without reporting to his bosses, while working on ARPANET, the network available to researchers and the military who later gave birth to the Internet. The US computer engineer was the first to use the ‘spiral’ symbol to indicate that a message has to go to a specific computer on the network, separating the name of the recipient from the rest. It ‘also known as the computer scientist who designed the basic elements of e-mail, the categories of’ object ‘and’ recipient ‘. In 2012 was inducted into the ‘Walk of Fame’ of the Internet, a virtual museum to learn about the figures who have made a special contribution in this area.
In his blog, Tomlinson told in detail the story of the creation of the ‘spiral’, trying to keep the legend wipe out the facts. “The first e-mail was sent between two machines that were located next to each other”, connected through ARPANET, I explain ‘. “The first message was quite insignificant and actually ‘I forgot.”
“Probably it came to QWERTYUIOP (the first letters of the keyboard) or something.” “Do not believe everything that you read. Do not believe everything you read on the web: remember that there are human beings behind these pages and humans make mistakes.”