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Tributes to email godfather Ray Tomlinson
He quite literally changed our world.
Tributes have poured in to American Ray Tomlinson, considered to be the godfather of email, following his death at the weekend at the age of 74, reportedly from a heart attack.
“A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers,” said Mike Doble, a spokesman for Tomlinson’s employer, Raytheon Company.
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf called his death “very sad news.”
Originally from Amsterdam, New York…
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@Frank5
March 2, 2024 at 3:25 am
Unfortunately there are ignorant people who do not know the difference between text messaging and email. Ray only did simple text messaging, and added the “@“ symbol. Email was actually invented (and copyrighted) by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai. The reason the lie gets perpetuated is because Ray was part of the military-industrial-academic complex, whereas Shiva invented email as a young teenager before entering MIT.
@selfworm
March 2, 2024 at 3:25 am
But who was the first person to start massive spamming?