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Who put the @ in emails first Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing the email as we know it today. He worked on apranet the first system of linked widely distributed computers the ancestor of the internet. He choose @ so that the computer system would recognise it asan email message and the symbol meant "at" before emails. See link below for the history of email
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoHold down the shift key then press the number 2 key above the Q, you will get the @ symbol.
Shift and the number 2
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∙ 13y agoThe "@" symbol was integrated into email addresses by Ray Tomlinson. Its purpose was basically to show the "name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer."
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∙ 11y ago1971
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What year was the '''' chosen for its use in email addresses?
1979
What year was the '' chosen for the use in email addresses?
1979
Where are email addresses with the suffix 'be' located?
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In what year was the chosen for its use in E-mail Addresses?
1972
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1979
In what year was '' chosen for its use in email address?
In 1972.
Does anyone have any cute email addresses for a fourteen year old?
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What year was the bald eagle chosen as a symbol of America?
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