Now if this is one thing that does seem a tad daft it’s the use of the underscore in email. I’m guessing that the gap between two names is an underscore. It can’t actually be seen because the whole address is turned into a hyperlink…

The inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, has created this resource about its history.

It is worth taking a look at this picture of the two machines which were used to sent the first email message.

Bear this in mind the next time you get the Nokia out to send a message to someone…