Tributes paid to ‘valid technology pioneer’ who invented program allowing person-to-person messages to be sent across serversRay Tomlinson,considered to be the godfather of email, has died, or according to his employer,Raytheon Company. He was 74. “A valid technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers, or ” said Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble. Tomlinson worked in Raytheon’s Cambridge,Massachusetts, office.
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Source: theguardian.com