Ray Tomlinson

Hai dear friends…

Wishing you all a very prosperous new year 2008…

Hotmail, Rediffmail, Yahoo, Gmail … and the list is endless. With various features and sizes all these e-mail providers are conncting several minds who like to write their expressions in long or short notes in a cost effective way.I am sure you are also a frequest user of e-mails. Do you know the man behind this idea…

He is Ray Tomlinson... Sir, We express our heartfelt thanks.

Ray Tomlinson

Inventor of e-mail.

Ray Tomlinson graduated in electrical engineering in the MIT and entered to work in the company BBN in 1967, shortly before which its company received the order to work for ARPANET

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was assigned to a project called SNDMSG. This program was not new, in fact it had existed for a number of years. By today's standards it was more than primitive. All it did was allow users on the same machine to send messages to each other. Users could create text files which would then be delivered to mailboxes on the same machine.

Ray was assigned to make this simple application do a little bit more. As it turned out, he had been working on something called CYPNET, which was intended to transfer files between computers within the ARPANET. So he modified CYPNET to perform one additional task - to append to a file. This was pretty simple and the change was quickly made.

After that, Ray made a decision which changed history. He created the format of the email address. He defined it as a mailbox name, the @ sign, and the machine's node name. He used the @ sign because "it seemed to make sense. I used the @ sign to indicate that the user was 'at' some other host rather than being local." The first email message was unceremoniously sent between two PDP-10 nodes of the ARPANET network. The contents of the first email message is lost to history, but it was probably something like "QWERTYUIOP".

Tomlinson has changed the world and made a lot of others rich without cashing in himself.Email has changed the way business -- from huge corporations to mom-and- pop shops -- does business. It's altering the way millions shop and bank.

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All wishes for 2008