Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Identify the person...


Question of the day contributed by Vijay Kulkarni

4 comments:

  1. Ray Tomlinson who implemented email system between two different hosts in 1971.

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  2. ray tomilson
    the founder of email

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  3. He is Raymond Samuel Tomlinson.

    He is the programmer who implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANet. Email had been previously sent on other networks such as AUTODIN and PLATO.

    It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet (previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer). To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since.

    Congrats Rama and Pranshu.

    Keep the Quizzer alive!!

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