Ray Tomlinson is the name of the man who revolutionized electronic messaging through the invention of email, or electronic mail, he sending the first email in 1971 while he was an employee of a company he developed ARPAnet, the predecessor of the Internet as we know it today.
Ray Tomlinson died yesterday at the age of 74 after a heart attack, but he leaves behind a huge legacy, he being considered one of the pioneers of the modern Internet, and email will always be linked to his name, no matter how much time passes since his death.
Although Ray Tomlinson invented the email as we know it today together with the order SNDMSG, before the creation of this service there were rudimentary versions that allowed the sharing of notes on the same computer, without the option of sending them over the network.
Ray Tomlinson created the first system that allowed the sending of messages or files between computers located in the same network or in different networks, he made the decision that the @ sign should identify the user to whom an e-mail message sent on the network should reach.
Unfortunately, the world has lost another extremely important man for the development of communications as we know them today, but his creation is widely used by hundreds of millions of people and continues to evolve year after year.
May the peasant be easy 🙁
Honestly, I have not heard of him until today, although he invented something that we all use every day....
But what can we do, the media is promoting Maruta and all the latecomers of the planet
Robert Paladino, the former professor of calligraphy at Reed College, who inspired Steve and who (perhaps) we can thank for the wonderful characters first implemented on a Mac, also died recently.
If so, we end up thanking everyone up to Alva Edison and Nikolas Tesla??
When they died they were thanked.
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@zaone You know when you will be thanked for the idevice and the daily information, right?
@Dabija you are cool :))))