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

By adamg - 4/24/12 - 8:41 am

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

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Finally Al Gore got his.

By TheVanJones (not verified) - 4/24/12 - 9:51 am

Finally Al Gore got his.

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 (not verified) - 4/24/12 - 10:16 am

#3

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.