The French call it arobase, the English at, the Germans Klammeraffe, the Swedes snabela, the Italians chiocciola and we "duck". But how did the famous @ symbol that is used in electronics come about? post office;
Although the e-mail is characterized as development-station for the history of computers and telecommunications in general, few know its creator and the exact date of its inventionThe father of the email is Ray Tomlinson. The exact date of sending the first e-mail is not known, but we know it was at the end of 1971.
The content of the message is also not known, after countless failed attempts to send diagnostic messages mainly. According to Ray Tomlinson, it is most likely that the content of the first e-mail consisted of a sequence of letters such as "QWERTYUIOP", the first row of letters on the PDP-10 computer keyboard it was using. Unfortunately, neither this "text" nor the author's name has been passed on to the history books. Even today, those who recognize his name Ray Tomlinson remember him more as the man who chose the @ symbol for e-mail addresses and less as the inventor of the application that fueled the revolution of electronic information.
The @ is one of the most recognizable symbols of today's era. It is part of electronics ID cardof hundreds of millions of internet users worldwide and many companies have attempted to appropriate the values it symbolizes by incorporating it into their name. Regarding the choice of the symbol, Ray Tomlinson has emphasized that he chose it for two main reasons. First, because of its importance in English language (at = at) and secondly because it was one of the few symbols on his keyboard that didn't appear in any name, so it wouldn't be a source of confusion.
