Inventor of modern email dies

Posted online March 7, 2016 | 12:43 pm

Raymond Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of modern email, died Saturday. He was 74.

In 1971, Tomlinson created the first network person-to-person email. Prior to that, electronic messages existed in a much more limited framework.

Tomlinson chose the “@” symbol to connect the username with the destination.

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