Ray Tomlinson Quotes


I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned. In particular, it's not strictly a work tool or strictly a personal thing. Everybody uses it in different ways, but they use it in a way they find works for them.


Citations

Franzen, Carl. "The Verge Q&A: Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson." The Verge, Vox Media, 2 May 2012.

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Ray Tomlinson
Ray Tomlinson
  • Born: April 23, 1941
  • Died: March 5, 2016
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Computer Programmer, Inventor, Electrical Engineer

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate".