Ray Tomlinson, who invented email and popularized @ sign, dies at 74
March 07, 2016 07:58
Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, has died aged 74."
A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers,' Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said in a statement confirming his death.Doble said Tomlinson died on Saturday morning but he did not know if he was at home and did not have a confirmed cause of death. Tomlinson worked in the company's office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The tech world reacted with sadness over the passing of Tomlinson, who became a cult figure for his invention in 1971 of a program for ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor, that allowed people to send person-to-person messages to other computer users on other servers. Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map,' read a Tweet from Gmail's official Twitter account.
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