Silicon Canals

Two men are each called the inventor of email: one chose the @ sign between two computers in 1971, the other wrote a program he named EMAIL as a 14-year-old in …

In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson wheeled his chair between two PDP-10 mainframes at BBN in Cambridge and sent the first message ...
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In 1926, the U.S. government killed Yellowstone's last wolf pack — and spent the next 69 years watching the park quietly fall apart

In 1926, federal predator-control policy eliminated the last wolf pack from Yellowstone. What followed — eroding riverbanks, vanishing willows, a single beaver colony left in the entire park — took ...