Sometimes it happens that some discoveries and inventions happen at the wrong time. Take, for example, the Tin Opener, which was made 50 years before it became a tin.
The first fax machine was made in 1843. Om was invented 5 centuries before today. But at that time, it was not customary to tag anyone by adding @, nor was it used to make anyone happy or angry.
What we do know is that the first use of was probably with email. But it was used in 1536. But at the time, no one used the symbol to tag King Henry VIII. Initially @ was used to denote the price per unit of a commodity.
There are various stories on this subject:
It is also believed that the om sign was made by some lazy clergymen in the sixth and seventh centuries. They resorted to Latin words in search of shortcuts to copy endless manuscripts. In that process, they made @ by rotating the long tail of the back of a towards or at (ad).
According to another claim about the invention of, this symbol was first used by a French journalist. He used to write (à) in short. In order to save time, he started writing it in detail. At that time, journalists used @ in the same sense as it still has.
According to another story, om was first used in a document published in 1536. It was a letter written by Francesco Lapi, a Florentine businessman.
He wrote each in short for each at. Like 14 lemons @ 10 dollars. He made om by combining the letters b and v. The first use of om in the sixteenth century was not until hundreds of years later. Computer scientist Ray Tomilson finally started using it in 1971.
Ray Tomilson was tasked with finding a way to send emails to computers connected to the ARPANET system. Arpanet is called the father of the Internet. Early Internet, which was not very modern and was used only by a limited number of people.
Tomilson then added a computer number or name to the man’s name by putting an पछा sign behind it. Then a message could be sent from one computer to another.
According to Ray Tomilson, Uti was looking for a symbol that would be used sparingly. After some study he came to know about Om. And he used it to send emails to his Arpanet system.
Since then, the Internet has become one of the most widely used symbols in the world.
