{"id":37602,"date":"2016-03-13T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webirix.com\/?p=37602"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:57:49","slug":"lomasnuevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/lomasnuevo\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of the origin of the @ symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/ws\/660\/amz\/worldservice\/live\/assets\/images\/2016\/03\/08\/160308184455_arroba_promos_640x360_thinkstock_nocredit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The @ symbol is the character of the internet age, but no one really knows where it came from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En el pasado, pocos usaban el signo &#8220;arroba&#8221;. M\u00e1s que todo, era \u00fatil para comerciantes o contadores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this changed thanks to Ray Tomlinson, the man considered by many to be the inventor of email.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, dies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He ripped the @ off his keyboard in 1971 to place it between the username and the destination address when he sent the first message between two computers in his office, and so on. <strong>it changed the future of the curious doodle that until then had had a dignified life but without frights, sharing a key with a number<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tomlinson chose @ because it was rarely used in computing at the time, and he wanted to avoid confusing older programs or operating systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En una feliz coincidencia, el nombre de ingl\u00e9s del s\u00edmbolo se ajustaba muy bien: &#8220;at&#8221; que significa &#8220;en&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Time to say goodbye to email?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/ws\/304\/amz\/worldservice\/live\/assets\/images\/2016\/03\/08\/160308183255_arroba_tecla_304x304_thinkstock_nocredit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En ingl\u00e9s, &#8220;el s\u00edmbolo @ apareci\u00f3 en las m\u00e1quinas de escribir antes del final del siglo XIX&#8221;, le dice a la BBC Keith Houston, autor de &#8220;Caracteres oscuros: La vida secreta de puntuaci\u00f3n&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Parec\u00eda ser un s\u00edmbolo general que significaba &#8216;esta cantidad de cosas a este precio&#8217;. No ten\u00eda m\u00e1s uso&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And, because typewriters included it, so did the first keyboards suitable for computers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<strong>The @ symbol was part of keyboards, because it was a work tool and had a commercial use<\/strong>&#8220;, se\u00f1ala Houston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was understood by business users as a symbol to indicate the unit price, for example: 12 tissues @ \u00a3 1 each.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further back and elsewhere<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2000, Italian academic Giorgio Stabile observed that many nations use different words for the @ symbol that describe what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En turco es &#8220;rosa&#8221;, mientras que en noruego, &#8220;cola de cerdo&#8221;. En griego es &#8220;patito&#8221; y en Hungr\u00eda es &#8220;gusano&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stabile further noted that in French, Spanish and Portuguese it referred to arobase or arroba, the unit of weight and volume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En italiano el nombre para el s\u00edmbolo es &#8220;\u00e1nfora&#8221;, en referencia a las jarras de almacenamiento de cer\u00e1mica con cuello largo que se usaban desde la antig\u00fcedad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/ws\/304\/amz\/worldservice\/live\/assets\/images\/2016\/03\/08\/160308184604_arroba_yoga_304x171_thinkstock_nocredit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stabile discovered a letter sent from Seville to Rome in 1536, discussing the arrival in Spain of three ships sailing from the New World.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indicaba que se hab\u00eda vendido un \u00e1nfora de vino y &#8220;\u00e1nfora&#8221; hab\u00eda sido reemplazada con el s\u00edmbolo @ como una abreviatura.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stabile concluded the @ symbol was a common medieval shorthand for units of measurement in southern Europe, even if the precise units differed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Spanish journalist Jorge Pareja then found an even older use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<strong>I have read about the 16th century example of @ and remembered that I had seen the symbol before<\/strong>, cuando era un estudiante de historia en la Universidad de Zaragoza. Revis\u00e9 mis viejos papeles y encontr\u00e9 registros de aduana entre Arag\u00f3n y Castilla en el siglo XV. Significaba &#8216;arroba&#8217; como una medida de peso, y en este caso una arroba de trigo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">@ men<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/ws\/624\/amz\/worldservice\/live\/assets\/images\/2016\/03\/08\/160308183146_arroba_siglo_14_624x351_creativecommons_nocredit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the oldest reference discovered until the @ symbol is a religious one. It appears in a Bulgarian translation of a Greek chronicle dating from 1345.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is located in the Vatican Apostolic Library, and <strong>the @ symbol appears in place of the A in the word &#039;Amen&#039;<\/strong>. The reason it was used in that context is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems fitting then that the first email sent with the @ symbol was also lost in time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Tomlinson sent the first message to tomlinson@bbn.tenexa, he didn&#039;t anticipate how revolutionary it would be so he didn&#039;t bother to save it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/ws\/624\/amz\/worldservice\/live\/assets\/images\/2016\/03\/08\/160308191902_arroba-genero.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El s\u00edmbolo @ es el caracter de la era de internet, pero nadie sabe realmente de d\u00f3nde viene. En el pasado, pocos usaban el signo &#8220;arroba&#8221;. M\u00e1s que todo, era \u00fatil para comerciantes o contadores. Pero esto cambi\u00f3 gracias a Ray Tomlinson, el hombre considerado por muchos como el inventor del correo electr\u00f3nico. Muere Ray &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosidades"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37606,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions\/37606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}