19 May
2016
19 May
'16
1:16 p.m.
Sorry about being late: Raymond Tomlinson, email inventor, sadly
passed on to the 'cyberworld' in March of this year. In this Age of
the Internet, we're communicating with his invention and sharing our
hobby throughoutthe world. Imagine 100 yrs. ago how we would have done
this!
Happy computing.
Murray :)
.
19 May
19 May
4:01 p.m.
From: Murray McCullough
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:17 PM
Sorry about being late: Raymond Tomlinson, email
inventor, sadly passed
on to the 'cyberworld' in March of this year. In this Age of the
Internet, we're communicating with his invention and sharing our hobby
throughoutthe world. Imagine 100 yrs. ago how we would have done this!
Pedantic note: Tomlinson did not invent e-mail.
What he did invent was a mechanism by means of which electronic mail
programs running on networked computers could communicate with each other.
In particular, he decided to use a character with a low frequency of
occurrence in text as the indicator that an address in the form of a user
identifier of some kind resided on a computer other than the local host.
His choice was, of course, the commercial-at (or commercial-a) character.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
5:26 p.m.
On 05/19/2016 04:01 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
What he did invent was a mechanism by means of which
electronic mail
programs running on networked computers could communicate with each
other. In particular, he decided to use a character with a low
frequency of occurrence in text as the indicator that an address in
the form of a user identifier of some kind resided on a computer
other than the local host. His choice was, of course, the
commercial-at (or commercial-a) character.
As opposed to,say, the "bang" format address (UUCP/usenet) or the
double-colon (DECnet) or CSNET (percent sign)--and there were probably a
host of company-internal varieties, particularly on older 6-bit machines
without a commercial "at" in their character set.
Fun was when email was shuttled through a couple of different systems...
--Chuck
5:41 p.m.
On Thu, May 19, 2016, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Murray McCullough
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:17 PM
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
--
Eric Christopherson
Sorry about being late: Raymond Tomlinson, email
inventor, sadly passed
on to the 'cyberworld' in March of this year. In this Age of the
Internet, we're communicating with his invention and sharing our hobby
throughoutthe world. Imagine 100 yrs. ago how we would have done this!
Pedantic note: Tomlinson did not invent e-mail.
What he did invent was a mechanism by means of which electronic mail
programs running on networked computers could communicate with each other.
In particular, he decided to use a character with a low frequency of
occurrence in text as the indicator that an address in the form of a user
identifier of some kind resided on a computer other than the local host.
His choice was, of course, the commercial-at (or commercial-a) character. 
20 May
20 May
5:49 p.m.
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign:
in Norwegian: kr?ll-alfa ("curled alpha")
in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?)
:-)
--
Regards,
Torfinn
6:11 p.m.
Not one of Kodi's better nights...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <tingox at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Passing of R. Tomlinson
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign:
in Norwegian: kr?ll-alfa ("curled alpha")
in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?)
:-)
--
Regards,
Torfinn
6:12 p.m.
On 05/20/2016 05:49 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
Another very interesting term to file away with German "Gaensefuesschen"
for quotation marks (usually the << and >> ones).
"Little goose feet".
--Chuck
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign: in Norwegian:
kr?ll-alfa ("curled alpha") in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?)
:-) 
9:54 p.m.
100 yrs ago people gather around sign boards to get the latest and word
would spread from that. News papers used to print several times a day in
that time as well amazing how computers changed things that fast :)
On May 20, 2016 8:12 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 05/20/2016 05:49 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric
Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
Another very interesting term to file away with German "Gaensefuesschen"
for quotation marks (usually the << and >> ones).
"Little goose feet".
--Chuck
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign: in Norwegian:
kr?ll-alfa ("curled alpha") in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?)
:-)
10:12 p.m.
On 05/20/2016 09:54 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
100 yrs ago people gather around sign boards to get
the latest and
word would spread from that. News papers used to print several times
a day in that time as well amazing how computers changed things that
fast :)
Unfortunately, the larger volume of information seems not to have
improved the general mental condition.
Kind of like today's television--lots of channels, mostly not worth
watching.
--Chuck
10:16 p.m.
People insulting me cause of a issue with how my brain articulates in the
written word is sure getting tireing
On May 21, 2016 12:14 AM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 05/20/2016 09:54 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
100 yrs ago people gather around sign boards to
get the latest and
word would spread from that. News papers used to print several times
a day in that time as well amazing how computers changed things that
fast :)
Unfortunately, the larger volume of information seems not to have
improved the general mental condition.
Kind of like today's television--lots of channels, mostly not worth
watching.
--Chuck
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