Email father's death: he let mail @-Email, email-IT information
According to the business Insider magazine (Business Insider) reported local time on March 5, the "email" the father of Ray Tomlinson (Ray Tomlinson) died at the age of 74.
The same day, Google Vice President and Chief Internet Adviser, Wente·SEFU (Vinton g. Cerf) on Twitter (Twitter) confirmed the news. Reports that Mr Tomlinson's death was probably caused by heart disease.
Tomlinson was invented in 1971 by email (E-mail), he was selected by the Internet Society (ISOC) list of the Internet's first Hall of Fame, United States Forbes had Tomlinson by saying: " for him personally, '@' is just a gadget, but for the whole world, you will no doubt be a great invention . ”
In addition to the invention of e-mail, he was also involved in the development of a number of network protocols, including the 1974 vision for the TCP/IP network protocol.
His email with "@"
Tomlinson was born in 1942. Tomlinson on all the mechanical workings of the infant are fascinating. "When I was a kid, I like table or home radios and other things apart, and study how they work. So, when I was in college majors, naturally chose the engineering section. "He said.
In 1967, after he got the doctorate in computer engineering at the Massachusetts Institute, in a company called Bolt Beranek and Newman (boerte·bei, Nick Newman, abbreviated BBN) company engaged in computer research. At that time, the company employed in the United States Department of Defense, to participate in the Internet (Internet) predecessor--the ARPANET (the Arpanet) construction and maintenance work, it is a United States 4 computers connected to the University network.
The fall of 1971, Tomlinson looking for an email address format, he wrote a small program that can put the program's file transfer protocol and others combine letters and the delivery of a program, so that a letter sent from one host to other units. Thus, the first e-mail was born.
At that time, Tomlinson decided to adopt the '@' symbol to separate user name and computer name. He called '@' the symbol is only one preposition on a computer keyboard--use "@" is the main reason: it has a preposition, or nature of the predecessor language, this symbol does not exist in the 26 letters, so we will not name and suffix and mailbox users to confuse.
"I look at a computer keyboard, and then started to think: which I will not put those letters and mixed in with the user name? "Tomlinson said," people may use comma in username, slashes, and spaces, and in the rest of the optional symbols, '@' the most significant, said Tong. It can represent the preposition 'at'--HA HA, probably my English is not very well. ”
"Never thought that Email would be so popular"
In fact, Tomlinson could not remember exact dates for the birth of the first e-mail, don't remember the first email content, perhaps similar to "QWERTIOP" so that a bunch of random beat out letters on a computer keyboard.
"He just know that this message is made from one computer to another computer. "Tomlinson's colleague, jieli·BU Fletcher Phil (Jerry Burchfiel) recalled:" he showed me the results, he told me that ' never said goodbye to the others, we are not taking money to do this. ’ ”
Tomlinson was the invention of success, he received the United States Defense Advanced research projects Agency to support, and the preferred way to use it as internal communications. However, Tomlinson never imagined that e-mail will be so popular today, never thought he created a revolution in the communication age.
He said: "I think this is a useful way. This is a communication resource does not require too much equipment. I cannot predict, such a rapid development of today's computer industry. 30 years ago, only about hundreds of network users, then connected to the network and the cost of equipment is very expensive. ”
Today, e-mail has changed the way many companies do business, and changed the way millions of people shopping and engaged in financial activities and became distant family, often the best way to keep in touch . United States of Darwin magazine that "the invention of e-mail by no means inferior to the invention of the telephone. "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) technology Hall of Fame for his comment was:" it can be said that Tomlinson is inadvertently changed communication habits, brings a whole new set of communication tools. ”
Email之父去世：他让邮件有了@ - Email,电子邮件 - IT资讯
据《商业内幕》杂志（Business Insider）报道，当地时间3月5日，“电子邮件之父”雷·汤姆林森（Ray Tomlinson）离世，享年74岁。
当日，谷歌公司副总裁兼首席互联网顾问文特·瑟夫（Vinton G. Cerf）在推特网（Twitter）上确认了这一消息。报道称，汤姆林森的死因可能是心脏病所致。
汤姆林森于1971年发明了电子邮件（E-mail），他因此入选由被互联网协会（ISOC）评选的首届互联网名人堂，美国《福布斯》杂志曾对汤姆林森评价说：“对他个人来说，‘@’只不过是一件小发明，但对整个世界来讲，则无疑是一件伟大的发明。”
除了发明电子邮件外，他还参与制定了许多网络协议，包括1974年为远景网络制定的TCP/IP协议。
是他让邮件里有了“@”
汤姆林森生于1942年。幼年的汤姆林森对一切机械的运转方式都非常着迷。“在我还是个孩子的时候，我就喜欢把家里的表或收音机等东西拆开，研究它们是如何工作的。于是，我在大学选择专业时，很自然地便选择了工程科。”他说。
1967年，他拿到麻省理工学院电脑工程博士学位后，在一家名为Bolt Beranek and Newman（博尔特·贝拉尼克—纽曼，简称BBN）的公司从事电脑研究工作。当时，该公司受聘于美国国防部，参与互联网（Internet）前身——阿帕网（Arpanet）的建设和维护工作，这是一个与美国4所大学的电脑相互连接的网络。
1971年秋天，汤姆林森寻找一种电子邮箱地址的表现格式，他首先编写了一个小程序，可以把程序的文件转移协议与另外一个程序的发信和收信能力结合起来，从而使一封信能够从一台主机发送达到另外一台。于是，第一封电子邮件诞生了。
当时，汤姆林森决定采用‘@’符号分隔用户名和计算机名。他把‘@’这个符号叫做是电脑键盘上唯一的一个介词——之所以使用“@”的主要原因是：它具有介词，或者前置语的性质，而这个符号不存在于26个字母中，所以我们就不会将它和邮箱用户名以及后缀给搞混。
“我看着电脑键盘，然后开始想：我该选哪个才不会让人们把这个字母和用户名混在一起呢？”汤姆林森回忆说，“人们可能会在用户名中使用逗号，斜杠和空格，而在剩下的几个可选的符号中，‘@’这个最有意义，最说的通。它可以表示介词‘at’——哈哈，可能是我英语不太好吧。”
“从没想过Email会如此普及”
事实上，汤姆林森记不请第一封电子邮件诞生的具体日期，也不记得历史上第一封电子邮件的内容，也许是类似于“QWERTIOP”这样一串随意在电脑键盘上敲打出来的字母。
“他只知道这封邮件是由他从一台电脑发到另一台电脑上的。”汤姆林森的同事杰里·布彻菲尔（Jerry Burchfiel ）回忆说：“他一边向我展示成果，一边叮嘱我说‘千万不要告别其他人，我们拿钱可不是为了做这个的。’ ”
汤姆林森的发明随即获得成功，他得到了美国国防远景研究计划局的支持，并将其作为内部人员通信的首选方式。不过，汤姆林森从未想到电子邮件会在今天如此普及，也从未想到是他开创了通信时代的革命。
他说：“我只觉得这种方式非常有用。这是一种不需要太多设备资源的通信方式。当时我无法预料，今天计算机产业能有如此突飞猛进的发展。30年前，大约只有几百个网络用户，那时的设备和与网络相连费用都是非常昂贵的。”
如今，电子邮件改变了许多企业做生意的方式，也改变了成百上千万的人购物和从事金融活动的方式，还成为了远隔千里的家人之间经常保持联系的最佳途径。美国《Darwin》杂志认为，“电子邮件的发明毫不逊色于电话的发明。”伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）技术名人堂对他的评语是：“可以说，是汤姆林森在无意间改变了人们的沟通习惯，带来了一个全新的交流工具。”