NPR’s Guy Raz got a chance to talk to Ray Tomlinson about how e-mail came about. Ray Tomlinson is the one who came up with the @ symbol used in email to be user @ host. Today, more than a billion people around the world type that @ sign every day. Tomlinson says that back in 1971, he did have some idea of the impact his invention would have.
“What I didn’t imagine was how quickly that would happen.”
Read more or listen at NPR’s site http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120364591&ft=1&f=1001
NPR’s Guy Raz got a chance to talk to Ray Tomlinson about how e-mail came about. Ray Tomlinson is the one who came up with the @ symbol used in email to be user @ host. Today, more than a billion people around the world type that @ sign every day. Tomlinson says that back in 1971, he did have some idea of the impact his invention would have.
“What I didn’t imagine was how quickly that would happen.”
Read more or listen at NPR’s site http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120364591&ft=1&f=1001
