Why Every Email Has '@'

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Marc Angelo Alcantara
October 21, 2025

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Morning @s!

Okay, that one was a stretch lol.

But real talk.

Look at your email address: {{email}}

Every single email on the PLANET has that dorky little @ symbol in it.

WHY?! 

Well, the year was 1971.

The guy was this computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson:

Ray wants to send a message from his computer..

Soooo he invents email! 

Sending this:

QWERTYUIOP!

Seems random and stupid, right?

It’s not. Look at the top row of letters on your keyboard.

Banger.

So anyway, Ray’s got a problem:

He looks down at his keyboard..

He needs a symbol that will NEVER appear in someone’s name.

  • Not a period

  • Not a hyphen

  • Not a space (that would break everything)

Wait!

Ya, that little symbol was used by medieval merchants to mean ‘at the rate of’

Like:

But nobody uses it anymore! 

So Ray formats his new email language 

And it was so clever we never stopped using it!

Stay Cute,
Henry & Dylan 🌈

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Your marketing isn’t marketing. (It's not your fault — you're busy running an actual business.) You need a social media manager, video producer, graphic designer, chat rep, and marketing strategist. The problem? Well, hiring five people costs approximately one kidney and your sanity.

But what if you could get all five for less than the cost of one employee? A team that works nights, weekends, anddd never asks for raises.

Meet Omada: Five AI agents trained on your brand who create content, manage social, produce videos, answer customers 24/7, and optimize everything while you focus on the “big picture stuff.”