The father of email, Raymond Tomlinson, died today at 74 years old due to a heart attack.
The news of his death was announced by another of the pioneers of the Internet, Vinton Gray Cerf, who used his Twitter account to report the death without giving precise about where there was not the reason, but was then confirmed by specialized media technology .
Tomlinson, who also considered the creator of the at sign (@) for use in addresses Internet , was included in 2012 in the Internet Hall of Fame, a virtual museum to recognize figures with outstanding contributions in this field.
American engineer was the first to use the symbol @ to indicate that a message should go to a computer network, separating the recipient’s name on the network.
TIP
the Tomlinson engineer born in Amsterdam, in the state of New York, in 1941, and after graduating in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic (1963) Institute expanded its training in this discipline at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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