Hey, there! Log in / Register
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:
Topics:
Ad:
Comments
Finally Al Gore got his.
Finally Al Gore got his.
Hmm... I would have guessed
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.
The "Internet Hall of Fame" is a brand new animal, and Ray Tomlinson is being inducted at inception. From the article:
100 Yards?
Wow! I don't think most modern text messages even travel that far!
+1000
.
I Remember...
...ArpaNet.
And the rest was history.
http://dotrat.com/2012/02/19/
http://dotrat.com/2012/02/19/a-little-geek-history/