The History of the @ Sign 1

[BJCooperIT]

I found this article interesting and wanted to share:

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/HistoryofAtSign.asp

Why do you think so many languages refer to an animal when describing the "@"?

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[2ffat]

I remember being told at an early age that @ meant at the price of. My mother used to recite the alphabet with ampersand (&), asterix (*), etc. I forget what she called the @ sign, though.

I guess that dates me pretty well, doesn't it?

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[SkipVought]

Could it have been a Cockney abbreviation?

Where's me @ @!

Skip,

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[PaulTEG]

... for when a londoner might request their cranial cover coordinates ...

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[gizmo1973]

Bit off topic but I thought funny.

A friend of mine started a company and called it Ampersand, he asked his graphic designer to incorporate this into his logo, however the designer was not all the savvy and the printed all my friends flyers, business cards, letter heads as

@mpersand and incorporated the @ symbol!

To this day my friend still states that the @ symbol is an ampersand as he has far too many goods printed to admit defeat!


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