Interviews: Raymond Tomlinson: Email Pioneer, Part 2

Raymond (Ray) Tomlinson was a computer engineer best known for developing the TENEX operating system and implementing the first email program on the Arpanet system in 1971. In its official biography, the Internet Hall of Fame states that “Tomlinson’s email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate.” The following interview is the second in a two-part Annals series based on an oral history conducted by Marc Weber and Gardner Hendrie for the Computer History Museum (CHM) in June 2009. (For a full transcript, see the CHM archive: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/ 2016/03/102702118-05-01-acc.pdf.) Tomlinson has since passed away, on 5 March 2016.