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@-Zeichen (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.geschichte-des-computers.de/internet.php1972 entwickelt Ray Tomlinson das erste E-Mail-Programm und führt das @-Zeichen ein.
(E?)(L?) http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000427
Does the @ sign have a name other than just the at sign? Do you have some information about its meaning? I could not find it in dictionaries, and Internet translations give the same symbol back as a response.
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In English, most people call it the "at sign" or "at", "commercial at" or "commat" (named by the International Telecommunications Union), and less frequently, the "address symbol", "strudel", "whirlpool", "rose", or "cabbage". In those long-ago days when not everyone had e-mail, the "@symbol" was frequently used by businesses to mean 'each' or 'apiece', as in "door hinges @ $1.95" or "3 avocados @ $0.75 = $2.25." Across the world, you may hear it called "arroba" (Spanish weight measure of 25 pounds), "zavinac" (Czech for 'rollmop'), "arobase" (French from the Spanish arroba), "snabel-a" (Danish for 'a' with an attached elephant's trunk'), "chiocciola" (Italian for 'snail'), "Klammeraffe" (German for 'clinging monkey'), "sobachka" (Russian for 'small dog'), "hsiao lao shu" (Taiwanese dialectal variant meaning 'little mouse'), or "apestaartje" (Dutch for 'small ape tail').
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