Wednesday, October 16, 2013

PAST

Main Man- Ray Tomlinson (Inventor of Email)

Was the first man to invent Email, it was used on the ARPAnet system and allowed users to communicate through the computer in a new way then ever before. To achieve this he used the @ sign in order to distinguish the human from the computer and that sign has been used ever since. This all took place in the year 1971. The first ever email sent had the letters "QWERTYUIOP" on it which is also the very top row of your computer board. Because of this great achievement he is listed as number 4 on MIT's top list of Inventors. He has also won a numerous amount of other awards and been inducted into the internet hall of fame. This is very influential in today's society as i will explain on my next post.

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