Ray Tomlinson, email inventor and selector of @ symbol, dies aged 74
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74
According to a 1998 profile in Forbes magazine, Tomlinson showed a colleague his invention and then, famously, said: “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed to be working on.”
“It wasn’t an assignment at all, he was just fooling around; he was looking for something to do with ARPANET,”
#RIP