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The impact of the amperstamp. This is the @, that is found in all email. The person that created and sent the first “Internet” email is Ray Tomlinson. Tom used the @ in his code. He recently passed away.
Ray was born and raised in New York State, USA. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1963 studying electrical engineering. He was then accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate program to continue his electrical engineering.
He eventually was hired by Bolt Beranek and Newman, also known as BBN. At BBN, he helped develop the Tenex OS that worked with Arpanet. He wrote a program called CYPNET that allowed for file transfer to the various sites that were connected to Arpanet. He added a few lines of code that enabled users to send messages between different computers. Previously only computers on the same site network could leave messages for each other. Ray introduced the @ and some code that enabled the different Arpanet sites to send email. The first email was sent to himself as test. He believed the email contained QWERTYUIOP.