The Man Who Invented Email
Computers began to communicate with each other in 1971 and the man who invented email is Ray Tomlinson. Here is a brief story revealing the invention of email communication.
Back in 1971, Ray Tomlinson was working as an engineer at BBN technologies (Bolt, Beranek and Newman). He was working to do something interesting with ARPANET and soon found a way to send messages from one computer to another, thus inventing the system known as email.
Tomlinson also gave birth to the “@” symbol, used to separate the name of the sender and the machine (or host) in an email address. He created the first ARPANET email application when he updated SNDMSG by adding a program called CPYNET capable of copying files over the network, and informed his coleagues by sending then an email using the new program. However, Tomlinson doesn’t remember the first email that he sent from one computer to another.
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