Happy Birthday Ray Tomlinson, the Man Who Put the ‘@’ in Your E-Mail

[Andre_Goldman]

“I looked at the keyboard, and I thought: ‘What can I choose here that won’t be confused with a username?'” Tomlinson remembers. “If every person had an ‘@’ sign in their name, it wouldn’t work too well. But they didn’t. They did use commas and slashes and brackets. Of the remaining three or four characters, the ‘@’ sign made the most sense. It denoted where the user was … at. Excuse my English.”

Full article link.
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ray-tomlinson-email/

ps->Talking about email I wonder if somebody got Hal Finney's original remailers code. I do like read old source codes 

http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/why_rem1.html

[otrkid70]

He stole the idea from me and i have proof. I should be compensated for every Email sent to date.

[YuTü.Co.in]

He stole the idea from me and i have proof. I should be compensated for every Email sent to date.

Prior to your idea being stolen, I suggested using å, the letter "a" with a pie hole above it.