From: rtomek at ceti.pl (Tomasz Rola)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:50:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200220215002.GC1470@tau1.ceti.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002201600280.1121@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:05:00PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> [ Moved to COFF ]
>
[...]
> Back when I was posting "On this day" events, I had this for Ray
> Tomlinson for 23rd April:
>
> Ray Tomlinson, computer pioneer, was born on this day in 1941. He is
> credited with inventing this weird thing called "email" on the
> ARPAnet, in particular the "@" sign to designate a remote host
> (although some jerk -- his name is not important -- is claiming that
> he was first).
I am afraid of jerks even if only a judge will listen to them.
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **
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2020-02-20 5:05 ` dave
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