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Ray Tomlinson: “Inventor of modern email” and use of ‘at’ symbol dies at 74

Ray Tomlinson: Inventor of modern email and use of 'at' symbol dies at 74

Ray Tomlinson, the American programmer credited with sending the first email across a network and initiating the use of the “@”symbol, has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 74. In 1971, while working as an engineer at Massachusetts research and development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Tomlinson sent a message between two computers on the ARPANET …

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