American engineers Raymond Samuel Tomlinson and Martin Cooper were honored Wednesday with the Prince of Asturias Award for Research Science and Technology 2009, for his work on email and mobile telephony.
Cooper is considered the 'father ' mobile phone and author of the first of its kind. Tomlinson was the one who had the idea to use the at sign (@) between the user and domain in your emails.
Cooper is considered the 'father ' mobile phone and author of the first of its kind. Tomlinson was the one who had the idea to use the at sign (@) between the user and domain in your emails.
Cooper is considered the 'father' of mobile phones and author of the first of its kind. Tomlinson was the one who had the idea to use the at sign (@) between the user and the domain in their email electronic.
However, behind these developments is a curious story ...
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In fact, that strange symbol that looks like a letter 'a' enclosed by a line extending from itself, like a tail of the letter, now so popular through e-mail, is actually an ancient symbol of measure equivalent to a quarter of a hundredweight. A quintal is a unit of weight and volume used in Spain and Latin America representing 46.0093 kg A @, then exactly equivalent to 11.502 Kg.
The term comes from the Arabic, 'ar-rub' , ' four' or ' quarter' . The earliest written documentation that you have the @ symbol dating back to 1,500. This is a correspondence between merchants of Seville and Rome, in detailing the content of some ships from the New Continent, the symbol used to specify the quantities of spices and wine arrived.
Thus, for centuries, the prosperous sailed @ Venetian ports to all corners of the British naval empire, through the Arab world and Spain. The ' at' was used in Load the registers that were docked on the shores of Arabian and English with a meaning equivalent to ' price' . Venetian merchants used the ' amphora. "
But while the origin of the symbol is related to the measures, as handwriting is even older. Latin was written in a combination of A and D , an almost superimposed on another, to eventually lead to the current symbol.
's relationship with email @ only due to chance and discard. In 1971, one of the engineers now just winning, Ray Tomlinson, the creator of the email, I needed a symbol to identify the new communication protocol. Keyboard, the only one left free without being used even in programming languages \u200b\u200bwas precisely this @ . ' could have been easier to use a bracket, a parenthesis or a comma, but these symbols and was used for other things and characters that were free, the @ was the best' , Tomlinson has had recently. ' addition, another point in favor of this symbol is that when translated as' at 'in English was a sense of location' .
The first email did not travel a great distance, just one meter, from one computer to another, but this protocol would revolutionize the ways to communicate, much as several years later would protocol 'http' and the ' WWW. "
The first e-mail address of the story is tomlinson @ bbn-TENEX . This address means ' Tomlinson' in (@) Host 'BBN-TENEX' .
The term comes from the Arabic, 'ar-rub' , ' four' or ' quarter' . The earliest written documentation that you have the @ symbol dating back to 1,500. This is a correspondence between merchants of Seville and Rome, in detailing the content of some ships from the New Continent, the symbol used to specify the quantities of spices and wine arrived.
Thus, for centuries, the prosperous sailed @ Venetian ports to all corners of the British naval empire, through the Arab world and Spain. The ' at' was used in Load the registers that were docked on the shores of Arabian and English with a meaning equivalent to ' price' . Venetian merchants used the ' amphora. "
But while the origin of the symbol is related to the measures, as handwriting is even older. Latin was written in a combination of A and D , an almost superimposed on another, to eventually lead to the current symbol.
's relationship with email @ only due to chance and discard. In 1971, one of the engineers now just winning, Ray Tomlinson, the creator of the email, I needed a symbol to identify the new communication protocol. Keyboard, the only one left free without being used even in programming languages \u200b\u200bwas precisely this @ . ' could have been easier to use a bracket, a parenthesis or a comma, but these symbols and was used for other things and characters that were free, the @ was the best' , Tomlinson has had recently. ' addition, another point in favor of this symbol is that when translated as' at 'in English was a sense of location' .
The first email did not travel a great distance, just one meter, from one computer to another, but this protocol would revolutionize the ways to communicate, much as several years later would protocol 'http' and the ' WWW. "
The first e-mail address of the story is tomlinson @ bbn-TENEX . This address means ' Tomlinson' in (@) Host 'BBN-TENEX' .
