Email Trailblazer Raymond Tomlinson Dead At 74
Tomlinson made the @ symbol one of the most visible
characters on the Internet.
03/06/2016 03:06 pm ET
Lydia O'ConnorAssociate News Editor, The
Huffington Post
MIGUEL
RIOPA/Getty Images
Raymond
Tomlinson in 2009, prior to the presentation of the Prince of Asturias
awards. Tomlinson died of an apparent heart attack on Sunday, March 6.
Raymond Tomlinson, the man who put
the @ symbol in email and forever changed the way humans communicate, died
Saturday at age 74.
His death was confirmed by the Internet Hall of Fame
and fellow Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf, considered one of the fathers
of the web, and Grady Booch, who is famous for
developing the Unified
Modeling Language.
He died of an apparent heart attack,
several outlets reported.
Born in Amsterdam, New York,
Tomlinson is most famous for establishing person-to-person email as we know it,
allowing people to send emails to users on other computers. He chose the @
symbol -- then considered an obscure keyboard character -- to separate
usernames from email hosts. Tomlinson came up with the idea while working for
Bolt Beranek and Newman, the software company that developed the Internet
precursor ARPANET, in 1971.
“I looked at the keyboard, and I
thought: ‘What can I choose here that won’t be confused with a username?'”
Tomlinson said in a 2012 profile in Wired, adding that he can't remember
what his first email said.
“They were all test messages, and
whatever came to hand as I put my fingers on the keyboard is what I would
send,” he said. “The first one could have said almost anything.”
The innovation earned him a place in
the Internet Hall of Fame earlier in 2012.
"Tomlinson's email program
brought about a complete revolution,
fundamentally changing the way people communicate, including the way
businesses, from huge corporations to tiny mom-and-pop shops, operate and the
way millions of people shop, bank, and keep in touch with friends and family,
whether they are across town or across oceans," the Hall of Fame wrote
when he was inducted.
"Today, tens of millions of
email-enabled devices are in use every day. Email remains the most popular
application, with over a billion and a half users spanning the globe and
communicating across the traditional barriers of time and space."
This story has been updated to
clarify that Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York.
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