The @ sign: the history of the appearance of a character when writing an email address, and for what reason it is called “dog”

Many of the global network jargon have come into our lives. Such memes include cake, trabl, life hacking, trolling, and so on. However, among all common and popular Internet jargon in runet, the first place is occupied by the “dog”.

This icon, familiar to the entire Internet audience, has the official name – “commercial at”, and it looks like this: @. Online, it is used to designate an email address. Continue reading →