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Before the Email Addresses, the @ Was Used to Count the Jars of Wine on the Markets of Florence, Reveal Archives of the Sixteenth Century
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Tap @ and the screen instantly slides it before a domain name. Yet, the Italian notaries of the Renaissance already slept on their registers to sell jars of wine. The origin of the arobase symbol goes back well before the first email. A jar of Florentine oil, first written trace of @ In 2000, Giorgio Stabile, professor of history of science at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, handed over a letter dated 4 May 1536. The author, the Florentin…
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