The @ symbol in email addresses
is over 500 years old.
What was it originally used for?

Q: The @ symbol in email addresses is over 500 years old. What was it originally used for?

As an accounting shorthand — '5 apples @ 2 rupees each'.. Ray Tomlinson picked it for email in 1971 because it was already on the keyboard and hardly used. Now the world’s most typed symbol.

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As an accounting shorthand — '5 apples @ 2 rupees each'. — Ray Tomlinson picked it for email in 1971 because it was already on the keyboard and hardly used. Now the world’s most typed symbol.