The person who invented the email just died at the age of 74

Ray Tomlinson is known as a "myth" of the technology industry, especially contributing to the development of the Internet.

Many technology sites recently reported that Ray Tomlinson, the father of email, died at age 74 on Saturday after suffering a sudden heart attack. In case you didn't know, Ray Tomlinson was the first to send email in 1971. At that time, he was working at BBN Technologies, the company played an important role in the birth of one of the versions. At the beginning of the Internet is called ARPANET .

Portrait of Ray Tomlinson, who is considered the father of email.

Besides, Tomlinson is also known as the person who chose the @ symbol to indicate that a message is sent to another computer in the same network. He is also a participant in and directs the development of structural standards in an email you still see today such as "from" (send from), "subject" (title) or data areas. other. Ray Tomlinson graduated with a degree in electronic engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Academy in 1963 and earned an MIT degree two years later.

Ray Tomlinson was named in the Internet Hall of Fame (roughly translated: Internet Hall of Fame ) in 2012.

The departure of Ray Tomlinson is the third loss of the list of computer legends who graduated from MIT this year. Earlier, artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky and personal computer expert Wesley A. Clark also died in January and February at age 88.