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Did you know the origin of symbol @ in the e-mail?

20 August 2009 No Comment

Jakarta – The presence of e-mail or electronic mail facilitate our work, especially to send files quickly. In an e-mail addresses, we use the symbol @ or who frequently read at. However, do you know the origin of the symbol that is so simple but it is important that?

In the year 1972, an engineer named Ray Tomlison quiet successfully sent the first e-mail between two machines. At that time he chose to use the symbol @. The reason was simple, because he thought the emblem was pretty helpful for a similar letter for the address or the address of the owner institution e-mail destination. From here the symbol @ is used to hold.

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