Già, che significa??

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com May 5, 2009, 12:37 am Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old By Robert Mackey The first known instance of the symbol @ being used in writing: a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant. From our colleagues over at The Lede, The New York Times’s news blog: Because it is used in every e-mail address and many tweets, you might be forgiven for thinking that the remarkably common symbol @, which English-speakers know as the “at sign,” but Italians call a “snail,” and south Slavs know as a “monkey,” is a fairly recent invention. In fact, as Wired magazine’s Tony Long points out, a Florentine merchant named Francesco Lapi used the symbol @ in a letter written 473 years ago today, on May 4, 1536. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported in 2000 that Giorgio Stabile, who was then a professor of the history of science @ La Sapienza University in Rome, had come across the symbol in the merchant’s letter, where it was used to indicate an ancient measure of weight or volume, an amphora.

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Ecco tutta la storia:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/internet-star-least-473-years-old/

... e comunque ci siamo sempre di mezzo noi italiani