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Old 06-30-2007, 06:47 PM   #2
Kitsune
still eats dirt
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
I looked it up SD; the idea of an email *address* was a little foreign, until RFC 720 (Aug 1976) formalized things like the @ symbol. (Instead of actually writing "at"!)
I've always been really interested to see what other cultures call the "@". Little monkeys, elephant trunks, snails, mice, cats, ducks, worms, curls and much more.

In Finnish it's "miukumauku" meaning "the meow sign".
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