From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rtomek at ceti.pl (Tomasz Rola) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:50:02 +0100 Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20200220215002.GC1470@tau1.ceti.pl> 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 **