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June 12, 2013

The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol

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In 1971, however, a keyboard with a vestigial @ symbol inherited from its typewriter ancestors found itself hooked up to an ARPANET terminal manned by Ray Tomlinson, who was working on a little program he’d come up with in his goofing-off time to send messages from computer to computer. Tomlinson ended up using the @ symbol as the fulcrum of the lever that ultimately ended up lifting the world into the digital age: email. Co.Design: business innovation design

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 12, 2013 5:38 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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