In 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent what is thought to be the first e-mail message...to himself. The word “Internet” had yet to be coined, and computers were the size of refrigerators.Today, billions of emails are sent and received every single day. Tomlinson, one of the early tech pioneers who helped make this mode of communication as ubiquitous as it is, died this past weekend.
Remembering Ray Tomlinson, the Man Who Put the @ in Email
Credits
Guest:
Hiawatha Bray - Columnist -
@GlobeTechLab
Host:
Madeleine Brand
Producers:
Matt Holzman,
Anna Scott,
Jolie Myers,
Christian Bordal,
Laura Swisher
