Email Inventor Raymond Tomlinson Dead at 74

R.I.P Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson, the man widely credited with inventing modern day email, passed away over the weekend from what some news outlets (like ZDNet) are reporting as a suspected heart attack (the cause hasn’t been confirmed). He was 74 years old at the time of this death.

We take email for granted today, but in the early days, it didn’t exist like it does now. The first implementation of email only allowed …read more

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