Elektrooptik

Eintrag vom: 24.09.2013.

At symbol @ is an abbreviation of ?at a rate of?. At sign @ has various meanings in different contexts and nowadays mainly used in email address to separate username from the domain name in an email address. Such as mike@example.com where mike is a username and example.com is a domain name.

 

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In 1972 Ray Tomlinson sent the first electronic message now known as email using the @ symbol to indicate the location or institution of the email recipient.

 

The at sign (@) is a typographical symbol used as an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14) [1] and now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles.