Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74.The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971.
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Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, has died aged 74.”A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers,” Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said in a statement confirming his death.
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Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74
Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74.