(credit: Steve Snodgrass)
If you’ve ever sent an e-mail, you can thank Raymond Samuel Tomlinson for putting the @ symbol there.
On Friday, Tomlinson died of suspected heart failure. He was 74.
Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941, and he earned a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1967, he joined Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a company that played a key role in the development of the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet.
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