To indicate mail that had been wrapped by postmen
This (@) is called an ampersand. This is an example of what happens when anyone can answer a question - wrong info. This is not an amperand - THIS is an ampersand &. My question is what is this symbol called: @
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to distinguish messages
to distinguish messages
Computer programmer Ray Tomlinson was the first to integrate the @ symbol on email addresses. He wanted to show the separation between a person's name and email address. This symbol is often referred to as the 'at' symbol.
The symbol was taken from the first two letters of the element, Helium
it was chosen on June 20, 1782
i think the pi was chosen by greek people for 3/14/13
1979
1979
Who put the @ in emails first Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing the email as we know it today. He worked on apranet the first system of linked widely distributed computers the ancestor of the internet. He choose @ so that the computer system would recognise it asan email message and the symbol meant "at" before emails. See link below for the history of email
It stands for fertility .