Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. The “@” sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson’s Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails, making “user@host” the email standard.
8 October 2012
Ray Tomlinson Invents Email
Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network. The “@” sign is chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson’s Model 33 Teletype to separate local from global emails, making “user@host” the email standard.
