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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Name(s):
Ray Tomlinson
Occupation:
Computer programmer, inventor, electrical engineer, homeopath
Birth:
April 23, 1941, Amsterdam, New York, U.S.
Death:
March 5, 2016 (aged 74), Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse:
Ann Tomlinson (?-2016)
Additional Information:
- Ray Tomlinson – Wikipedia
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. - Official Biography: Raymond Tomlinson | Internet Hall of Fame
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York in 1941. He attended college at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he participated in … - Raymond Tomlinson | Internet Hall of Fame
Raymond Tomlinson is widely known for inventing network electronic mail, choosing the “@” sign in emails to connect the username with the destination … - Ray Tomlinson | American computer engineer | Britannica
Mar 1, 2020 – Ray Tomlinson, (Raymond Samuel Tomlinson), American computer engineer (born April 23, 1941, Amsterdam, N.Y.—died March 5, 2016, … - Ray Tomlinson – Computing History
Ray Tomlinson worked as a computer engineer for Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the company hired by the United States Defense Department to build the first … - First Network Email sent by Ray Tomlinson – Event …
The text of that first electronic missive consisted of “something like QWERTYUIOP.” Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test … - Ray Tomlinson – History of the Computer
Raymond (Ray) Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941 in Amsterdam, New York) is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (the oldest technological university in … - Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email: ‘I see email being used …
May 2, 2012 – In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was a recent MIT graduate hired to help build the earliest components of Advanced Research Projects Agency … - Ray Tomlinson obituary | Technology | The Guardian
Mar 14, 2016 – Ray Tomlinson, who has died aged 74, put the @ sign in your email address, and thus invented the name@host convention now used by … - Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74 – BBC News
Mar 6, 2016 – Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74. The US computer programmer came up …