[BITList] Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email, has died at 74

[John Feltham]

> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/07/inventor-of-email-ray-tomlinson-dies-at-74/#gref <http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/07/inventor-of-email-ray-tomlinson-dies-at-74/#gref>
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> Inventor of email Ray Tomlinson dies at 74
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> Engineer Raymond Tomlinson, who invented email way back in 1971, died on Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack at the age of 74.
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> 45 years ago, while working at R&D firm Bolt Beranek and Newman in Boston, Tomlinson developed a system to transmit images between computers using the ARPANET <https://www.wikiwand.com/en/ARPANET> protocol. It was then that he chose to use the @ symbol to separate a user’s name from their host — cementing its place in internet history.
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> For his contribution to revolutionizing the way we communicate, Tomlinson was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame <http://www.internethalloffame.org/official-biography-raymond-tomlinson> in 2012 along with the likes of Linux inventor Linus Torvalds and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the godfather of the Web. His work impacts over one and a half billion email users today.
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> ➤ Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74 <http://www.smh.com.au/technology/web-culture/email-pioneer-ray-tomlinson-dead-at-74-20160306-gnbspq.html> [The Sunday Morning Herald]
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> Featured image credit: Internet Hall of Fame / YouTube   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp0NHkBIAY>



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