Yesterday was my 34th birthday. Generally I’m a birthday non-celebrator. I just don’t get over excited about the date I have to fill on my tax return forms, DMV license, blah blah. But I do love getting happy birthday messages from my friends, that means the world to me.
And reading [this post](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/guess-what-just-turned-34.html):
> It’s difficult to pin down the exact origin of email, but in October 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson chose the ‘@’ symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email.
Which probably didn’t happen the exact same day, 34 years ago, but the post itself is dated Oct 21st. Let’s just assume it did, ‘k?
Just thought I’d share.