Emily Miller- Creator of Email Dies

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/us/ray-tomlinson-email-creator-obit/index.html

Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, died yesterday at 74. He graduated from MIT, and in 1971, embarked on a mission to find a way to send messages through computers. The result of his work was ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. Computers were very large at the time, large enough to fill a room. Tomlinson ran across many problems which he had to solve by creating new technological concepts. One problem he came across was sending a message to a specific person, rather than everyone with a computer. To do this, he created the equivalent of the "@" sign.
Just decades later, email was a necessity, and today we can use it to send almost anything online.

Internet, specifically sending messages over it, had a huge impact on APUSH similar to that of morse code or the telegraph. People could communicate over long distances, and the pace of life sped up. Ray Tomlinson was the 70s equivalent of Robert Morse, and without him, I wouldn't be able to write this blog post.