Ray Tomlinson

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American programmer. He created the first email system on the ARPANET system in 1971. He used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since. He was added into the Internet Hall of Fame. He was born in Amsterdam, New York.

Tomlinson died of a heart attack in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He was aged 74.

References

↑ "Famous Birthdays in Computer Science". kias.dyndns.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
↑ Ray Tomlinson. "The First Network Email". Archived from the original on 2006-05-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
1 2 "Inventor of email and savior of the @ sign, Ray Tomlinson, is dead at 74". The Verge.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.

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[1] "Famous Birthdays in Computer Science". kias.dyndns.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[2] Ray Tomlinson. "The First Network Email". Archived from the original on 2006-05-06. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[death-3] 1 2 "Inventor of email and savior of the @ sign, Ray Tomlinson, is dead at 74". The Verge.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.