John Brownlee on the unlikely evolution of the @ symbol: "Rejuvenated by its insertion before every Twitter handle, the @ symbol today is almost a pronoun. It has a very personal meaning for billions of people across the planet. It's the symbol that means "digital me.""
The evolution of @
A tour of the oldest domains still on the internet
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In 1990, engineers wrote an internet standard for carrier pigeons
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Gmail set to become even more intrusive
Outside the world of open-source computing, it's getting pretty hard to escape artificial intelligence being jammed down our throats for even the most banal tasks. Google's Gmail was already awful — it… READ THE REST
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