Amazon 7 #1 March 7, 2016 Ray Tomlinson Inventor of modern email Love it or hat it the guy who invented it has passed Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and a technological leader, has died, his employer said Sunday. Mr. Tomlinson died Saturday, the Raytheon Co. said; the details were not immediately available. Email existed in a limited capacity before Mr. Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network person-to-person email, there was no way to send something to a specific person at a specific address. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
