Ray Tomlinson obituary

Computer scientist who helped to bring email to the massesRay Tomlinson, who has died aged 74, put the @ sign in your email address, and thus invented the name@host convention now used by billions of people every day. His logical but entirely personal choice of the asperand made a little used keyboard character into what the Museum of Modern Art in New York called a “defining symbol of the computer age”.At the time – the early 1970s – Tomlinson’s idea did not seem m