WASHINGTON Inventor e-mail, the American computer Raymond Samuel Tomlinson died Saturday at age 74, and left a legacy of a new form of communication that has become universal.
gone Ray Tomlinson, who wrote the first email in 1971, said his employer, the US defense company Raytheon, which does not specify the cause of death.
“True technology pioneer Ray is the man who invented the e-mail at the start of the connected computers, “he recalled the company said in a statement.
” His work changed the way the world communicates and yet despite all his success, he remained humble, kind and generous. We were lacking all, “said Raytheon.
One of the founding fathers of the Internet, Vinton Cerf, among the creators of protocols electronic data transfer TCP / IP, currently vice president of Google, said in Facebook be moved by this “very sad news.”
Internet “lost one of its true pioneers,” he said for his part Internet Society , an American organization which enjoys great moral and technical authority in the world.
Born in 1941 in the small town of Amsterdam, 250 km north of New York, Ray Tomlinson diploma had at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
conceived program that lets you send a message from one computer to another when working on Arpanet, the network reserved for researchers and military who later would give birth to the Internet.
it was also Tomlinson who conceived the idea of using the u character (at) to separate the identity of the network with which it is linked.
Gmail messaging, developed by Google, praised his Twitter account the work of this precursor with a sober “thanks, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing the email and the famous u iRip” (for Rest in Peace).
the history invention of email was chronicled in detail by Ray Tomlinson in his own blog to keep the legend replaced the facts.
“Do not believe everything you read on the web. Remember that there are human beings behind those pages, and humans make mistakes, “he warned
.” The first electronic message was sent between two machines that literally found one next to the other, “connected to through Arpanet, once he explained.
“I sent a number of test messages from one machine to the other. The first message was completely forgettable and, indeed, I have not forgotten. Most likely it was something like QWERTYUIOP or similar, “he said, referring to the first row of letters in the English language keyboard.
” Once I was satisfied with the operation of the program, send a message to others researchers to explain how to send a message via the network. The first electronic message announced its own existence, “he said.
In an interview in 2012 with the specialized site The Verge, Ray Tomlinson was pleased that his invention was” used by everyone, just as ( he) looked at “.
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