Re: Who put the @ in the email adress and why?

quote from wikipedia:

The ARPANET computer network made a large contribution to the evolution
of e-mail. There is one report [1] which indicates experimental
inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in
1969. Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the
names of the user and their machine in 1971 [2]. The common report that
he "invented" e-mail is an exaggeration, although his early e-mail
programs SNDMSG and READMAIL were very important. The first message
sent by Ray Tomlinson is not preserved; it was "a message announcing
the availability of network email"[3]. The ARPANET significantly
increased the popularity of e-mail, and it became the killer app of the
ARPANET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

quote from wikipedia:

The ARPANET computer network made a large contribution to the evolution
of e-mail. There is one report [1] which indicates experimental
inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in
1969. Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the
names of the user and their machine in 1971 [2]. The common report that
he "invented" e-mail is an exaggeration, although his early e-mail
programs SNDMSG and READMAIL were very important. The first message
sent by Ray Tomlinson is not preserved; it was "a message announcing
the availability of network email"[3]. The ARPANET significantly
increased the popularity of e-mail, and it became the killer app of the
ARPANET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

Probably not the same person who put the c**t in Scunthorpe (English
northern town)

"Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)" wrote:

Unspam wrote:

Probably not the same person who put the c**t in Scunthorpe (English
northern town)

Talking of which, would an address in Scunthorpe get penalised as having
"adult content" ?

Just a thought.

When MSN Search was in beta, it was not possible to search for the german
word 'Staatsexamen'... But this has been fixed now.

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On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:19:19 GMT, "Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)"
<PeTe33 (AT) gymratz (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Unspam wrote:

Probably not the same person who put the c**t in Scunthorpe (English
northern town)

Talking of which, would an address in Scunthorpe get penalised as having
"adult content" ?

Just a thought.

Urban legend has it that it was by AOL years ago. Somewhere also with
"dick" in it IIRC.

BB
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Big Bill wrote:

Urban legend has it that it was by AOL years ago. Somewhere also with
"dick" in it IIRC.

I'm hurt and offended that they would censor my name!

Big Richard