I never knew or head of him till now .........e-mail inventor ray tomlinson ........i always wondered where it came from! ......e-mail that is !........well actually i did not really know......... or give a flying fuck......... about e-mail.......... to be honest with you ,,,,,,,,i never wasted time.......... thinking about it ......i just took it for granted ....... like everyone else .......like AOL ......that was my first days of PC world .........when i just started on the net ....with a shitty put together comp form a friend .....it was slow ......... and fucking annoying .......i have had many e-mail names but now i used three or is it four .......... not sure ........but my main one is the best .........who knew someone invented it .......i just thought......... it was part of the WWW..... excuse my ignorance ....... mister Tomlinson ........i wonder how much he is worth .......does he get some VIG........ from every mail .........how does he get paid ? ........does he get a percentage after all 4 billion people use e- mail ........ that is a nice slice of cheese ........ to say the least .....
Ray Tomlinson; The Man Behind the Email
Ray was born in1941, in New York. In 1963, he got a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He also interned at IBM throughout his undergraduate years. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Ray joined Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies) as a lead engineer upon graduation and remained there for the duration of his career.
During the early 1960s, network technology existed for sending messages between users on the same computer. Ray started his career at BBN in 1967 and was instrumental in the development of ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet. In 1971, he combined the CPYNET and SNDMSG programs to create the ARPANET’s first application for network email, enabling messages to be delivered to users on other computers. He utilized the @ key to denote the user’s computer or electronic destination, so inventing the email address. User@host became the de facto standard for email addresses and continues to be so to this day.
Email remained a novelty for many decades following ray’s conception. Computers were prohibitively huge and costly. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as personal computers became more popular and inexpensive, online services such as email and America became commonplace. By 1996, electronic mail had surpassed postal mail in popularity in America. Today, about 4 billion people have email accounts, and roughly half of the world’s population uses email.
Ray earned the American Computer Museum’s George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award in 2000. The next year, he was inducted into the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame and received a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In 2002, Discover Magazine presented him with the magazine’s Innovation Award. Ray was awarded the Internet Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2004. In 2009, he was appointed Laureate of the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He is placed fourth on MIT’s ranking of the top 150 inventors and concepts from the university.
In 2012, Tomlinson was elected to the Internet Hall of Fame. He passed away from a heart attack in 2016 at the age of 74 at his Lincoln, Massachusetts residence.
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