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This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of
the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an

ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to

denote sending messages from one computer to another.

So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of

nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon

Postel, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with
describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day.

Despite what the world wide web offers, email remains the most important

application of the Internet and the most widely used facility it has.

It's really no surprise that now more than 3 BILLION people internationally use

email for some purpose or another.

G-mail alone has quoted over 300 million users just a few years ago.

Even crazier is that MILLIONS of email users send HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of

messages every single day.

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