Datum 2014
mouse in 1964, and it was made out
of wood.
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The
world’s
first
at La Sapienza University in Italy,
discovered some original 14th-century
documents clearly marked with the @
computer
In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the first
sign to indicate a measure of quantity
electronic message, now known as
are uploaded on Youtube.
18.
The History of @
Symbol
- the amphora, meaning jar.
e-mail, using the @ symbol to indicate
which was named Z1, was invented
the location or institution of
the
The amphora was a standard-sized
by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next in-
e-mail recipient. Tomlinson, using a
terra cotta vessel used to carry wine and
vention, the Z2 was finished in 1939
Model 33 Teletype device, understood
grain among merchants, and, according
and was the first fully functioning
that he needed to use a symbol that
to Stabile, the use of the @ symbol (
electro-mechanical computer.
would not appear in anyone's name
the upper-case "A" embellished in the
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approximately
so that there was no confusion. The
typical Florentine script) in trade led to
1,319,872,109 people using the Inter-
logical choice for Tomlinson was the
its contemporary meaning of "at the
net.
"at sign," both because it was unlikely
price of."
20. Amongst the most interest-
to appear in anyone's name and also
ing computer facts is, when the first
because it represented the word "at,"
Apple computer which was built by
as in a particular user is sitting @ this
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it
specific computer.
There
are
was made by using parts they got for
free from their employers. They were
However, before the symbol became a
made to scrounge spare parts from
standard key on typewriter keyboards
work.
in the 1880s and a standard on
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While it took the radio 38 years,
QWERTY keyboards in the 1940s,
and the television a short 13 years,
sketchy history of use throughout
years to reach 50 million users.
the world. Linguists are divided as
22. 70% of virus writers work under
to when the symbol first appeared.
contract for organized crime syndi-
Some argue that the symbol dates
cates.
back to the 6th or 7th centuries when
23. A program named “Rother J” was
Latin scribes adapted the symbol
the first computer virus to come into
from the Latin word ad, meaning at,
sight “in the wild” — that is, outside
LED carpet turns
the floor into a
screen
the @ sign had a long if somewhat
it took the World Wide Web only 4
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to or toward.
the single computer or lab where it
BIG-SCREEN TV not involving enough?
was created.
The scribes, in an attempt to simplify
How
24. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest
the amount of pen strokes they
carpet that transforms the floor into
word which can be typed with only
were
ligature
a vivid display? The design could let
the left hand.
(combination of two or more letters)
animated characters step out of your
25. Mosaic was the first popular
by exaggerating the upstroke of the
TV and whizz across the floor or guide
web browser which was released in
letter "d" and curving it to the left
passengers at an airport.
1993.
over the "a."Other linguists will argue
26. Of the 247 BILLION email mes-
that the @ sign is a more recent
Announced last week, the carpet is
sages sent every day, 81% are pure
development, appearing sometime
the result of a collaboration between
spam.
in the 18th century as a symbol used
Dutch carpet-maker Desso of Waalwijk
in commerce to indicate price per
and display and lighting firm Philips of
unit, as in 2 chickens @ 10 pence.
Eindhoven. The trick was to engineer a
While these theories are largely
carpet backing that could transmit light,
speculative, in 2000 Giorgio Stabile,
says Desso's Ludwig Cammaert. Instead of
a professor of the history of science
the usual opaque, rubbery resin, Cammaert
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using,
created
the
about
a
giant
LED-studded