He died Raymond Tomlinson, the e-mail and Dad ‘spiral’ – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 7, 2016 at 08:29 hours.
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Raymond Tomlinson, considered the “father” of e-mail and the creator of family “spiral” that contraddistigue addresses, died Saturday scorsoall’età 74 years. The news was disclosed by another of the Web pioneers Vinton Gray Cerf, known as Vin Cerf, now vice-president of Google.

Tomlinson was born in 1941 and was a graduate of the prestigious MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston. The first he wrote in 1971 e-mail: designed the program in total secrecy, without giving any notice to his bosses, while he was working on the development of the ARPANET, the network reserved for the military and researchers who would later gave birth to the Internet.

Computer engineer, Tomlinson was the first to use the symbol of the “spiral” to indicate that each message should go to a specific computer on the network, separating the name of the recipient address from the rest. It is also known for designing the basic elements of e-mail, creating the categories of “subject” and “recipient”. In 2012 had been included in the “Walk of Fame” of the Internet, a virtual museum that welcomes personalities who have made a contribution recognized as “extraordinary” in this field.

In his blog, Tomlinson told in detailing the history of the creation of the nut, to avoid wipe out an aura of legend, storii facts. “The first e-mail was sent between two machines – he explained – that were next to each other connected via the ARPANET. The first message was quite insignificant, and actually forgot it. Probably it came to QWERTYUIOP (the first letters of the keyboard) or something. Do not believe everything that you read and do not believe everything you read on the web: remember that there are human beings behind these pages and humans make mistakes. “

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