He died Ray Tomlinson, the creator of e-mail – Gazeta Wyborcza

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Ray Tomlinson - computer scientist who created the first e-mail (Raytheon via the Internet Hall of Fame via AP)

                  
                  
                  

                  
             

             
   
   
   
 
 
 
 

At the age of 74 years died Ray Tomlinson, an American engineer and programmer, creator of the e-mail, a typical e-mail address, using the @ sign and author of the first e-mail.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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Tomlinson died Saturday at the age of suspected heart attack. Information about his death gave his employer, Raytheon Company, one of the largest arms in the world. "Ray was a true technology pioneer, the man who gave us their e-mail in the early days of computer networks" - he said in a statement spokesman Mike Doble.

In 1971, Tomlinson worked as an engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman, who won the contract to build the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. Then modified the then existing protocols so that you can send electronic messages between two computers. Previously, only users of the same computer can communicate to such messages. Years before the era of PC-s computers were then large machines, used by many people.

Tomlinson came also the idea of ​​using the @ sign in e-mail addresses to separate the recipient's name from the destination address. This sign was originally used by traders to indicate the unit price of goods - eg. "Ten articles @ 1.95 dollar." The so-called. "Monkey" was the only sign that none of the people using the ARPANET did not use in their user name.

"Something like QWERTYUIOP"

It is not known the exact date of sending the first message - sources say 1971 or in 1972, but the most likely is in November or December 1971. According to the magazine "Forbes" Tomlinson showed his first e-mail to colleagues, asking them to not proclaimed because it's not something that had to deal with at work. When the e-mail began to be omnipresent, Tomlinson lived to worldwide recognition for his invention.

Tomlinson could not remember what was the content of his first e-mail. It was a test message - as he wrote later on its website - probably contain just a string from the top row of the keyboard - QWERTYUIOP or "something", what is meant by the random nature of the message.

" Thank you, Ray Tomlinsonie, for the invention of e-mail and make famous the @ sign "- posted on Twitter Google representatives on the official profile of their e-mail - Gmail.

Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map. #RIP

- Gmail (@gmail) March 6, 2016

         

         

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