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Why Your Email Address Has An @ In It
Email is something many of us have only been using for the past 20 years, but its roots go back much, much further than that. The earliest traces of email even date back to the 1960s, and according to Wired, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson was responsible for many of email’s earliest innovations, including the use of @ in email addresses.
Corruption, Lies And Death Threats: The Man Who Pretended To Invent Email
Shiva Ayyadurai, pictured above, is a shimmering intellectual. He holds four degrees from MIT (where he lectures), numerous patents, honours and awards. He also says he invented email, and there’s a global conspiracy against him. Guess which one of these statements is true.
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