Today I Found Out
The First Email and the Origin of the @ Symbol (2017x124)
Air date: May 20, 2017
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In the video today, we're looking at the origin of the @ symbol and who invented email as we know it.
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Sources:
http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-accidental-history-of-the-symbol-18054936/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#History
http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/23/the-history-of-and-6-other-symbols-that-rule-twitter-and-the-web/slide/at-symbol/
http://www.charlieanderson.com/centsign.htm
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/what-is-the-origin-of-the-dollar-sign
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/origin-of-ampersand
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/whereat.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroba
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/where-did-the-symbol-come-from?page=all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson
http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ray-tomlinson-email/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Manasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZPZf1A6F4
http://wordinfo.info/unit/2385/ip:7
Image Credit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ray_Tomlinson.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DECSYSTEM-20_KL-10_(1974).jpg
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