World's first ever e-mail message was sent 100 yards in Cambridge

By adamg on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 8:41am

Inventor of e-mail inducted into new Internet Hall of Fame; he also gave the world the @ sign for addresses.

Neighborhoods:

Cambridge

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History

Technology

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Comments

Finally Al Gore got his.

By TheVanJones on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 9:51am.

Finally Al Gore got his.

Hmm... I would have guessed

By RhoninFire on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 9:53am.

Hmm... I would have guessed that a person who make something so visible to so many people's daily lives(though no necessarily essential of the internet, I guess) would have been inducted at inception or something along those lines.

They did.

By anon on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 10:16am.

The "Internet Hall of Fame" is a brand new animal, and Ray Tomlinson is being inducted at inception. From the article:

On Monday the Internet Society commemorated that achievement by inducting Tomlinson, now 71 and an engineer for Raytheon, into the Internet Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland. He joins 32 other Internet luminaries in the Hall of Fame's first class.