
Not many people know him, but that is not something that bothers him, not really. According to him, he still gets lots of e-mails from computer nerds thanking him for what he's done. What really annoys him is when he gets spam.
In English, @ is called "at", but other languages have more interesting names. In South Africa, it is "monkey's tail"; in Denmark, it is often "pig's tail"; in France, it is sometimes "little snail"; in Greece, it is a "little duck"; in Hungary, it is "worm"; in Poland, it is sometimes "little cat"; in Russiam it usually is "little dog"; in Sweden, it is "elephant's trunk"; and Turkish e-mailers call it simply "ear".
