Email turned 34

Date October 23, 2005

Paul Buchheit, Gmail Engineer, writes about the origins of email and its future:

It’s difficult to pin down the exact origin of email, but in October 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson chose the ‘@’ symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email.

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