commercial at
"@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at, strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T: commercial at. The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate the local part from the hostname. This dates back to July 1972 when Ray Tomlinson was designing the first[?] e-mail program. It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the latin preposition "ad" (at). Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is "arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about 25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba". Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail). See @-party. (2003-04-28) In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ @ ] [ ad ] [ address ] [ af ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ AL ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ AS ] [ as ] [ ASCII ] [ at ] [ at sign ] [ aw ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ base ] [ bb ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ C ] [ CA ] [ ca ] [ CAL ] [ cat ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ char ] [ character ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ clone ] [ co ] [ code ] [ com ] [ cu ] [ cy ] [ D ] [ date ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ design ] [ do ] [ doc ] [ document ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ electron ] [ electronic mail ] [ electronic mail address ] [ e-mail ] [ ER ] [ er ] [ ERC ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fr ] [ G ] [ ga ] [ ge ] [ German ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gn ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ history ] [ host ] [ hostname ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ INTERCAL ] [ Internet ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ iron ] [ is ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ ITU ] [ ITU-T ] [ J ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ mail ] [ man ] [ ml ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ net ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ NT ] [ nz ] [ om ] [ org ] [ pa ] [ @-party ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pound ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ query ] [ Ray Tomlinson ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ rude ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ SC ] [ sc ] [ SCI ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ sit ] [ sn ] [ so ] [ st ] [ strudel ] [ sy ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ tj ] [ tn ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tron ] [ tt ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ us ] [ ve ]
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