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Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson Dies At 74 (techrepublic.com)
vikingpower writes: ARPAnet pioneer and networking legend Ray Tomlinson, who is best known for his contributions in developing email standards, has died at 74. Tomlinson was best known for choosing the @ symbol to indicate a message should be sent to a different computer on a network. He also led development of standards for the from, subject, and date fields found in every email message sent today.
When Tomlinson first showed his invention to his colleague Jerry Burchfiel, Tomlinson said, "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on." May Ray rest in peace in /dev/null.
I would have put the apostrophe key on a 35 foot extension, since most people seem unable to grasp that it's means it is.
Thankfully the real inventor of modern email is getting due credit, rather than charlatans like VA Shiva Ayyadurai.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Only thing I wish he had done - make the thing case SENSITIVE. Like Foo@Bar.com would have been different from foo@bar.com or FOO@BAR.COM.
Which would have lead to endless confusion, leaks due to case bugs, and phishing attacks. Thank goodness he took the smart option.