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To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. [9] The Internet Hall of Fame in its account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate."
William Frazier Thomas (June 13, 1918 – April 3, 1985) was a Chicago television personality. Although Thomas wrote nine children's books, he was best known for creating, hosting, writing and producing the long-running children's television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-TV.
Ray was born in Williams, Arizona. [1] He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937, working under Tex Avery for six months. He applied for a job at MGM and was hired. According to him, he got paid $18 a week, 6 times the money he got paid at the Warner Bros
Ray (musician) (born 1990), Japanese singer and radio personality Ray Abrams (musician) (1920–1992), American jazz and jump blues tenor saxophonist Ray Alexander (musician) (1925–2002), American jazz drummer and vibraphonist
[1] [33] He cited the harsh Chicago winters as the motivating factor. [7] Rayner was the station's weatherman, complete with notes pinned to his jacket as they were to his coveralls in Chicago; he also hosted the local PM Magazine in Albuquerque. [2] He returned to Chicago for the 25th and 30th anniversary shows for Bozo's Circus.
Following his sudden death in 1995 due to pancreatic cancer, Tom's wish that a park be built for Chinatown residents came true on October 2, 1999, when the Chicago Park District dedicated the 12-acre (49,000 m 2) Ping Tom Memorial Park next to the Chinatown Square in his name. In 2005, a bust of Tom was installed in the park to commemorate the ...
Tom's son (Tom Swift Jr.) was also the name of the protagonist of the 33 volumes of the Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, the 11 volumes of the third Tom Swift series, the 13 volumes of the fourth, and a half-dozen more for the most recent series, Tom Swift, Young Inventor, for a total of 103 volumes for all the series.
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) [1] was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.