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Symbol @ mainly used in Internet e when writing an email address. It serves as a kind of separator between the domain name on which the email is registered and the username.
Now many Internet personalities call this symbol "one of the main pop symbols of our time." Evidence of universal recognition for this symbol is that in February 2004, the symbol was introduced into Morse code, in which it combines the codes of the Latin letters A and C. Now this symbol can be proudly called the "International Telecommunication Union".
But this symbol, which has only recently received recognition, is not as young as one might think. The Italian researcher Giorgio Stabile in the city of Prato, in the archives of the Institute of Economic History, discovered a document on which this sign is first found in writing. The document, dated 1536, turned out to be a letter from a merchant, and a symbol @ it denoted containers with wine delivered on merchant ships to Spain. After analyzing the data, scientists came to the conclusion that most likely the symbol @ a measured unit was designated, equal to the ancient universal measure of volume - amphora.
The American scientist Berthold Ullman suggested that the symbol @ invented by medieval monks. And the symbol was used to reduce the word of the Latin language - " ad”, which is one of the universal words, and meaning “in”, “on”, “in relation to” and the like.
In French, Portuguese and Spanish, the name of the character @ comes from the ancient word "arroba" - a Strao-Spanish measure of weight, equal to about fifteen kilograms, which in writing is abbreviated by the symbol @ .
Symbol @ now has an official name - " commercial at". This name originates from the accounts. Since the symbol was often used in business, it was decided to place it on typewriter keyboards. Symbol @ was already present on the keyboard of the first Underwood typewriter, which was released in 1885. Later, this symbol was inherited by computer keyboards.
According to the official history of the Internet, it is generally accepted that the symbol @ appeared in the email address thanks to Ray Tomlinson, an American computer scientist and engineer. It was he who sent the first electronic message back in 1971. He chose the symbol @ as a separator between two names, since this character did not occur in the names themselves.
In Russia, it is customary to call the symbol @ "dog". This funny name can be explained in several ways. For starters, the symbol itself is visually similar to a dog curled up. And the sound of the English word "at", which is part of the official name, is slightly reminiscent of a dog barking. Also, if you turn on the imagination, then in the symbol @ you can see all the letters from the word "dog", only with the exception of the letter "k".
There is also a more interesting version of the origin of this name. Long ago, when computer displays were exclusively text, there was a popular electronic game called " Adventure or "Adventure". The game was a journey through labyrinths, in which treasures were hidden, but also through which underground monsters roamed. The labyrinth consisted of the symbols "+", "-" and "!", and the player, treasures, and monsters were indicated by various letters and signs. According to the plot, in the game the player had a faithful companion and friend - a dog who went on reconnaissance. And this dog was designated by the symbol @ . But it is not known whether the symbol was already called a dog at that time, or, on the contrary, this was the root cause of this name.
It is also worth noting that in Russia the symbol @ in addition to "dog", they call "ram", "ear", "bun", "frog" and even "kryakozyabra".
As already mentioned, in France, Spain and Portugal, the symbol is called "arroba". America and Finland @ called "cat", "mouse" in China and Taiwan, "monkey" in Poland, Croatia, Holland, Romania, Serbia, Germany and Slovenia, "snail" in Italy, "worm" or "tick" in Hungary, "rosette" in Turkey, whirlpool in Israel, rollmops in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, little pasta in Greece, crooked A in Vietnam, monkey A in Bulgaria, monkey tail in the Netherlands, cat tail in Finland, "elephant trunk" in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and in Latvia and Lithuania - "et" and "this".
Everyone who uses e-mail knows for sure that the name of any mailbox contains an incomprehensible at first glance either a letter, or an icon, or a symbol that looks like @. Some Internet fans call this icon the main pop symbol of popularity. And if you could hear about this, then not everyone knows that in 2004 the International Telecommunication Union introduced the “dog” into Morse code.
History of the @ sign
Strange as it may sound, but an Italian researcher named Giorgio Stabile, studying the archives of the Institute of Economic History in the city of Prato near Florence, discovered a very strange phenomenon. It turns out that the “dog” familiar to us is first found in written documents that date back to 1563. The document talked about the fact that 3 merchant ships arrived in Spain, and as cargo on board there were containers with wine, which were indicated by the @ symbol.
After a little thought and analysis of the then market, the scientist came to the conclusion that the @ sign in those days denoted such a unit of wine measurement as amphora or "anfora". It was a universal measuring unit for measuring volume.
However, there is a second version of the appearance of this strange sign. Now a US scholar named Berthold Ullman has suggested that the @ sign was invented by medieval monks, who used it to shorten the word "ad", which was also universal and had several meanings: "on", "in", "in relation to" and some others.
However, the true origin of this actually mysterious symbol is still unknown.
commercial at
In the modern world, the @ symbol is officially called “commercial at” and it originates from business. For example, it could be found in such an inscription as “7 widgets @ $2 each = $14”, which in translation would sound like “7 pieces of 2 dollars = 14 dollars”.
And since it was difficult to make any calculations without this symbol, the first Underwood typewriter in history, which was released in 1885, already had this symbol.
Later it was inherited by the computer keyboard. But what is noteworthy, in the USSR, the @ symbol was not known to anyone until the first computers appeared here.
But how did this strange symbol appear in the names of our mailboxes? For this we must thank the computer scientist Ray Tomlinson, who in 1971 sent the world's first e-mail. In this case, the address consisted of 2 halves.
The first is the username, the second is the name of the computer on which the user is logged on. And to separate one from the other, Ray Tomlinson chose an icon on the keyboard that was not in either of the two halves. And by chance it was the @ symbol.
How the commercial at (@) got the name "dog"
In fact, they have not yet come to a consensus here either, and today there are several versions of why the @ symbol began to be called “dog”.
1. Verviya the first: The icon looks like a dog curled up.
2. Version two: if you pronounce the English word at several times in a row, it will be like a dog barking.
3. Version three: if you have imagination, then in this symbol you can find all the letters that are in the word "dog". Well, if only with the exception of the letter "k".
But for big romantics, there is another version, which most users adhere to. In the old days, there was a fairly popular game "Adventure", which translates as "Adventure".
The player had to wander through the labyrinth, look for treasures and fight against a variety of enemies. The labyrinth on the screen was drawn with symbols, the enemies were indicated by letters and icons, but the treasure hunter's faithful dog was indicated by the @ sign.
However, history is silent about whether the badge for the dog was not chosen because it was already called that.
Where else is the @ symbol used?
1. In chemistry, when writing formulas - [email protected]
2. In Europe, there is even such a sign "@", which means that this place has free access to the Internet.
3. Sometimes it is used to replace the anarchy symbol, since it is simply impossible to write this sign on a computer.
4. In some European languages it is used in informal correspondence.
5. The international student organization AIESEC uses this sign in informal correspondence as a symbol of the organization.
This is our "dog". At first glance, a simple icon, but in fact, there is a whole story behind it!
Monuments to the "electronic dog"
Today in Russia there are 2 monuments to the electronic dog. The first of them is installed in Chita, the second in Orenburg. They also wanted to erect a monument to the “dog” in the Moscow region, but so far this remains in the plans.
Monument in Chita- This is a cement slab, the size of which is 1.5 by 1.5 meters. The plate is installed directly on the sidewalk and took the place of 9 ceramic tiles that were in this place. The monument was erected in just half a day. It took 40 kg of cement. Residents of the city are proud that the first monument to the @ symbol in Russia appeared in their city.
And this year another one was opened and this event happened in Orenburg on the territory of Perovsky Park. This is a large amusement park that young people like to visit, and besides, there is free Internet, so the choice of the place was not accidental.
"Electronic Dog" is not just a button on the keyboard. This is a symbol that has its own history, and as it turned out, this history is long and interesting.
In the 1990s, when they first tried to translate the @ sign into Russian, there were many equal options - “krakozyabra”, “squiggle”, “frog”, “ear” and others. True, at present they have practically disappeared, and the “dog” has spread throughout the Runet and has remained, because any language strives to have only one universal word for anything. The remaining titles remain marginal, although there may be a great many of them. For example, in English, the @ symbol is called not only the words commercial at, but also mercantile symbol, commercial symbol, scroll, arobase, each, about, etc. Where did the association between the main computer icon and a person's friend come from? For many, the @ symbol really does resemble a curled up dog.
There is an exotic version that the abrupt pronunciation of English at can resemble dog barking. However, a much more likely hypothesis links our symbol to the very old Adventure computer game. It had to travel through the maze, fighting with various unpleasant underground creatures. Since the game was textual, the player himself, the walls of the labyrinth, monsters and treasures were indicated by various symbols (say, the walls were built from "!", "+" and "-"). The player in Adventure was accompanied by a dog that could be sent out on reconnaissance missions. It was denoted by the @ symbol. Perhaps it is thanks to this now forgotten computer game that the name "dog" has taken root in Russia.
In today's world, the @ sign is everywhere, especially since it has become an integral part of the email address. But this symbol was part of the layout of the standard American typewriter long before the computer era, and became a computer symbol only because it was relatively little used. The @ sign is used in commercial calculations - in the meaning of "at the price" (at the rate). Let's say 10 gallons of oil at $3.95 per gallon would be shorthand: 10 gal of oil @ $3.95/gal. In English-speaking countries, the symbol is also used in science in the meaning of "at": for example, a density of 1.050 g/cm at 15 °C would be written: 1.050 g/cm @ 15 °C. In addition, the @ sign is loved and often used by anarchists due to its similarity to their symbol - "A in a circle."
However, its original origin is shrouded in mystery. From the point of view of the linguist Ullmann, the @ symbol was invented by medieval monks to shorten the Latin ad ("on", "in", "in relation to" and so on), which is very similar to its current use. Another explanation is given by the Italian scientist Giorgio Stabile - he discovered this symbol in the records of the Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi for 1536 in the meaning of "amphora": for example, the price of one @ wine. Interestingly, the Spaniards and the Portuguese call the character in emails exactly “amphora” (arroba) - a word that the French, distorting, turned into arobase. However, in different countries there are a variety of names for the @ symbol, most often zoological. The Poles call it "monkey", the Taiwanese - "mouse", the Greeks - "duck", the Italians and Koreans - "snail", the Hungarians - "worm", the Swedes and Danes - "elephant trunk", the Finns - "cat's tail" or " meow sign, and the Armenians, like us, - "doggie". There are gastronomic names - "strudel" in Israel and "rollmops" (marinated herring) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition, often this symbol is simply called "crooked A", or "A with a curl", or, as the Serbs, "crazy A". However, the most surprising of the modern stories associated with the @ symbol occurred in China, where the sign is tritely called "A in a circle." A few years ago, a Chinese couple gave this name to a newborn. Perhaps the sign began to be perceived as a hieroglyph symbolizing technological progress, and they decided that it would bring happiness and success to the young inhabitant of the Middle Kingdom.
In Turkey - a rose, in Israel - a strudel, in the USA - a cat, and in our common people - a "dog". This is how they called the global symbol of the electronic box @, which replaced the address, paper and pen in our everyday life.
And where did such a funny squiggle with the letter “a” come from and why do we use it in our email addresses?
The origin of the symbol is shrouded in mystery and has given rise to dozens of theories. The Roman professor Giorgio Stabile in 2000 put forward an interpretation of the origin of the "dog", which refers to the letter of the merchant of the 16th century and the designation with the letter "a" with a curl 1 amphorae of selling wine.
- The American Berthold Ullman is sure that the “@” sign was invented by the monks of medieval orders and denoted Latin "ad"(symbol: "on", "in", "in connection with").
- If we take Spanish and French, then here the name "dogs" sounds like "arroba", that is old unit of weight equal to 15 kilograms and denoted by the symbol "@".
- The official name of the sign is "at" and takes its name from trade settlements. For example, 5 products @ (for) 2 UAH each. The symbol was used so often by merchants that it was decided to put it on the keyboards of typewriters, and from there it moved to our computers.
But the Internet "@" began to surf thanks to the inventor of soap - Ray Tomlinson. It was he who decided to assign a "dog" to the mail, since the sign could not be found in any other name or abbreviation. The first Internet mail address in history was: [email protected] Then the engineer did not even suspect what wild popularity the squiggle, which he chose as the main symbol, would acquire.
So why do we still have a "dog"?
And here, too, there is no definite version. Some believe that the symbol really looks like a puppy curled up. The latter are sure that the English "at" repeated more than once remotely resembles a deaf dog barking. And still others prove that almost all the characters in the word "dog" are somehow similar to "@". Although this theory raises significant doubts.
But here is the most popular version of the origin of our name for the designation of electronic soap associated with one of the first antediluvian computer games called "Adventure". Where one of the main characters is a funny dog looking for treasures in a terrible labyrinth and designated precisely by the “@” symbol.
In fairness, it should be noted that we have a symbol, in addition to a beloved dog, they called it a frog, a kryakozyabra, a snail and even a lamb.
- In other countries, the fantasy played out even more. The Netherlands is a monkey tail, Denmark is a trunk, China is a mouse, Serbia is a crazy “A”, and creative Slovakia is “rollmops”, which means, you won’t believe it, a herring under a marinade. That's it.
Now you know where one of the most used symbols in the world came from, so similar to a cozy cute little animal.
In recent years, the Internet has become a part of our lives, every day most of us go to our favorite sites where they share their impressions, watch movies and listen to music. At the same time, the user types a huge number of different characters, sometimes without thinking about their meaning. One of these signs is - "@", otherwise this character is also called "dog" or "dog".When was this sign first used and what does it mean?
The history of the symbol "dog" @
According to the researcher, this symbol appeared long before the Internet in the distant Middle Ages. The clergy who created the manuscripts used it to denote "direction", "approach", "belonging", since in English this icon denotes the preposition "at", which can be translated into Russian as, "k", "v", "on".Much earlier in 15 century, historians found out that the "@" sign had a different meaning. It was used to designate a measure of volume - an amphora, which was equal to 12,5 kg.
This symbol was again remembered in 1971 year, thanks to a man named Ray Tomlinson. When sending an email, it was suggested to separate the username from the hostname, essentially meaning the same "at" preposition. Since that time, this sign"@" essentially becomes the designation for the entire Internet and is used with great success on the World Wide Web today.
Why is the "@" symbol called "dog"?
It was called that at the beginning of the formation of the Russian part of the Internet, apparently it seemed to someone that the "@" symbol was somewhat reminiscent of a dog. In other countries, people's fantasy worked differently, it is called: "cinnamon bun", "cat", "elephant ", "snail", "monkey".Many do not understand at all what the person was guided by when calling the symbol "@" - "dog". It looks like a snail, it even looks like an elephant, but it doesn’t “pull” like a dog at all. The maximum that this image looks like is like a small cat comfortably curled up in a ball.
American programmers in their circles call this symbol "dog shit", which means "dog shit" in Russian. Most likely it was this expression that was the starting point of the Russian designation of the symbol "@". The word "turd" was not used and was discarded because it was clearly indecent. Therefore, the word "dog" remained.
