Why @ is used in email id?

Answer 1

The guys who invented the first e-mail system needed some kind of a symbol to use to signal the mainframe he was working on that the information was an e-mail address. Since the @ key was not used for anything at the time, he choose that is the symbol, and placed it in the middle of the command, between the name and the address (Name@Address,com) because it made it easy to remember (name -AT- address). The idea stuck.

Answer 2

for example [e-mail]
@ is the link between the server and the user id of mailbox of the server

if there was no @ then it would be islaminamdaryahoo.com , some other domain

if not @ then the internet standards company would have made some other character but @ suits the best @ ( at )

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Answer 3

because @ stands for at and your id will say your username and then @ to represent which website you get you're emails from

example: [e-mail]

NOTE: that is not a real email adress

Answer 4

Its an SMTP identifier to seperate the account/user name from their mail host's SMTP domain. Basically its the SMTP way of putting the Name, Street Address and Zip code on a piece of snail mail. To whom, and where is what it seperates.

Answer 5

@ means "at" so an email address is prettygirl at such and such a domain (yahoo, excite, msn, etc), or [e-mail]

Answer 6

@ is the server for the e-mail adrdess(e.g [e-mail],yahoo is the server for that e-mail address)