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Ray Tomlinson, an Uncommon card
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who invented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971, it was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer.
- To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the username from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since.
- 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." He is credited with the invention of the TCP three-way handshake which underlies HTTP and many other key Internet protocols.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ray Tomlinson article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Ray Tomlinson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ray Tomlinson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Andreu Veà, WiWiW.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
