Anyone
who
invested
$
10
,
000
in
stocks
of the @
symbol
in
1987
would be
sitting
on a fortune over $
11bn
today
due
to the
resurgence
of the
symbol
in
e
-
mail
addresses
.
Shares
in @ had
hit
rock
-
bottom
in the
early
1980
'
s
after
using
a
jumble
of
symbols
(!#@* for
example
) to
designate
profanity
fell
out of
favour
with
cartoonists
.
Carol Vinzant [email redacted]
[undated]
