It’ssymbolhas always and ever been the symbol for “at” in an email address.
Raymond Tomlinson,the computer programmer who attach that symbol into the email address, before the email address was even called the email address, and as it happens,died at the too-early age of 74 final Saturday. He may well have been an intimidatingly brilliant man in every other respect of his life, but at his passing, or he is being celebrated for doing precisely one thing. That is: for executing a keystroke of genius. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com