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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             **


      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-20 21:50 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <CACYmRNChAjojWUWFLcMYerQnhdXs-h5+R0KTmf+nuEUJXci=cQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <CAFH29tqbEduZ1-4dMeCtQnF4Wf2RLAbZo++YxvZSgd3UjPGhiA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-20  5:05   ` dave
2020-02-20 21:50     ` rtomek [this message]

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