Raymond Tomlinson engineer, considered the father of e-mail and creator arroba symbol (@) for use in internet addresses, died on Saturday (5) to 74, apparently due to a heart attack.
the death was announced by the current Google vice President Vinton Cerf, according to AFP.
Tomlinson, who in 2012 was included in the Hall of Internet Fame, one virtual museum to recognize figures with outstanding contributions in this field, is also recognized for having designed the fundamental elements of the electronic messages with the categories of “subject” and “to” (recipients), according to EFE news agency.
the American engineer was the first who used the symbol of the at sign to indicate that a message should go to a computer network, separating the network the recipient’s name.
In his blog, Tomlinson had told in great detail the story of its creation. “The first email was sent between two machines that were next to each other to” connected through ARPANET, he said.
“The first message was quite ‘forgettable’ and indeed the forgotten” he added. “Most likely it was something like QWERTYUIOP (the qwerty in English) or something …” he said.
Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam in the state of New York in 1941 and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1971 he wrote the first email in history.
No comments:
Post a Comment