Raymond Samuel “Ray” Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented “Tomlinson’s email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate”.Tomlinson is internationally known and credited as the inventor of the email. (source: Wikipedia)
Ray Tomlinson, the father of email, died at 74
About the Author: Dejan Foro
Dejan Foro is founder and CEO of Exchangemaster GmbH.
He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and is a dedicated specialist, with 26 years of professional work experience in IT.
Before starting Exchangemaster GmbH he worked for 20 years as a system engineer and project manager with customers of all sizes across many industries: From small ISV startups and a NGO humanitarian organizations up to largest international corporations like Stryker, Swisscom, British Telecom and Nyrstar.
He spent his entire career delivering Microsoft based infrastructure solutions with main focus on Active Directory, Exchange and Office 365. During those years, he collected a valuable work experience on 8 Exchange generations (2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 and 5.5) and has delivered services to a user base of more than 3.2 million mailboxes in on-premise, hybrid and Office 365 deployments.
Beside working on customer projects, he is a regular speaker and expert at Microsoft conferences and user groups. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer he also teaches Microsoft Official Curriculum courses to technical professionals around Europe.
For his work he has received numerous awards.
In 2005 he was the first member to be elected into the MCP Hall of Fame by Windows IT Pro Magazine readers choice (as 1 of 6 worldwide). From 2005-2017, Dejan has been awarded by Microsoft Corporation with the yearly Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in area of Exchange for 12 years in a row. In area of Exchange this award is issued to less than 100 Exchange professionals worldwide.
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