[Informatics] [OT] Ray Tomlinson

[John Schwartz]

It used to be used in pricing and stood for "each at" as in 4 items @  $1 is $4. It has always looked to me like an a inside an e as a result.

John Schwartz
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:23 PM -0800, "Andrew Shortell" <shortell at get2me.net<mailto:shortell at get2me.net>> wrote:

that is just where it is at

Andrew Shortell
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On 9 Mar 2016, at 10:07 am, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com<mailto:kenjprice at gmail.com>> wrote:

Just a curiosity: the @ symbol is called an Affenschwanz in German. And aapstert in Afrikaans.
Both literally means "monkey's tail" which is a nice description of its appearance - a monkey with its tail curled around it.
In Welsh it is malwen (snail)
In Hungarian,kukac (worm or maggot)

But in English it appears to have no other name than the "at sign".

kp

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Trouse <Stephen.Trouse at flinders.vic.edu.au<mailto:Stephen.Trouse at flinders.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
He was just a b at by!

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Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for email addresses, has died aged 74.

Th@'s sad.

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Mark Kelly

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