Working as a computer engineer/programmer at BBN Technologies, the firm that created ARPANET before the Internet had been created, Ray Tomlinson in 1971 created email as we now know it.
The ability for different people to leave messages for one another on the same computer had existed since the early 1960s, but Tomlinson came up with the @ symbol and how it could be used to allow us to send messages to other computers all over the world.
Tomlinson is one of those innovators whose ideas, however important, did not make them wealthy. Even so, his innovation has radically altered the way we communicate.
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