Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and @ usage, dies at 74 March 6, 2016 by admin Tweet Tomlinson, the internet pioneer who built the original email system and first used the @ symbol to separate user from host, died of an apparent heart attack this weekend. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Beware: Microsoft email users, even with MFA on, are…Fired via email right before Christmas? Careful! You…GIF creator, Stephen Wilhite, dies at 74 after…The face of Dogecoin has died at approximately 18-years-oldMicrosoft reminds all that Internet Explorer dies in…