Ray Tomlinson, the man who is accredited to inventing email as we know it, has died.
Tomlinson invented email in 1971, where he developed a system that a person on one network could send another person a message on a different network. Not only that, but he’s also accredited to inventing the use of the “@” inside an email address.
The man has won many awards for his invention over the years, and it’s likely email wouldn’t be where it is today without him. Google posted a message to its Gmail Twitter account to honor Tomlinson and his achievements:
Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map. #RIP
— Gmail (@gmail) March 6, 2016
No one knows what the first email ever sent was. Tomlinson is quoted saying that “”I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other. The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them.”
Most recently, Tomlinson was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society in 2012 for his achievements in 1971.
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