Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson
1941 - 2016
Ray Tomlinson  American Inventor
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First Name Ray
Last Name Tomlinson
Birthday 30th November, 1940
Birthplace Amsterdam, New York, U.S.
Died 5th March, 2016
Place of Death Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Text Computer programmer, inventor, electrical engineer
Occupation Inventor

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; he is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate".

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