He accidentally invented email and this iconic symbol.

Thank you TheWhiteMan for yet another invention

I wouldn't say he invented it per se, he repurposed an existing key. @ was a key on the commonplace Teletype Model 33 and apparently not otherwise used by the system at the time.

I read email was invented by an Indian boy Shiva ayyadurai

For anyone interested to know a bit more:

No. It was not an accident. He recognized something and implimented a system to take advantage of it.

I remember using Lotus Notes when I worked for the phone company, that was the first email platform I ever used. I opened my original Hotmail account back in like 1998. That sucker gets dozens of fishing emails a day regardless of how many accounts I block 😩

The first documented use of the @-sign is in a 1536 letter by Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi, where it denoted the amphora, a unit of measure for wine.

Tomlinson did not invent the @ symbol in 1971, he invented a new application for what was a little-used symbol, to separate user names from host machine names. In medieval times, @ was shorthand for "at the rate of".

To make sure: the @ symbol existed much earlier than e-mail and this bearded man.

False. It was 👉@va_shiva that invented email not the bearded man

I remember a time where people asked for the @ symbol on the keyboard while buying a new PC

Thank you White Man

You ruined my life

@Yonat_a So all this email jazz is his fault? Should we blame him for DMs and the one-finger swipe too? Or was that his evil brother's fault?

at mi sign??

😂😂

We are just some user @ computer

Not worthy to say his name? Just He?

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But I thought the Great Honorable MIT Dr. PhD @va_shiva invented email

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Wait, what… Zuckerberg didn’t invent Email?

@profdwh I have a vague recollection of Kermit being an early email system for academics?

@grok was was the @ sign used for prior to this?

what was @ used for before

Software engineer nobi coder

any idiot would of thought of the @ symbol, duh

Tomlinson created Jobs. Very high position high paying jobs!

Those pioneers are legendary.

Amazing 🌎🇺🇸

@grok what is his name

Stop lying

No this fool did not invent email. Here is Grok’s analysis.

Oh, I’ve been taught to believe Indians created our computer technologies.😂😂😂🤣