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EMAIL
Aug 23, 2014 23:17:19 GMT
Authored by wayneborean on Aug 23, 2014 23:17:19 GMT
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EMAIL
Aug 25, 2014 10:30:34 GMT
Authored by macrorodent on Aug 25, 2014 10:30:34 GMT
A nice and uplifting story, until you look at other sources. Like this: www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.htmlExtract: "[...] This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day. Despite what the world wide web offers, email remains the most important application of the Internet and the most widely used facility it has. Now more than 600 million people internationally use email. By 1974 there were hundreds of military users of email because ARPANET eventually encouraged it. Email became the saviour of Arpanet, and caused a radical shift in Arpa's purpose." So it is quite a bit older than 30 years...
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EMAIL
Aug 25, 2014 12:14:36 GMT
Authored by macrorodent on Aug 25, 2014 12:14:36 GMT
By the way, the Huffington Post article makes much of V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai's copyrighting EMAIL. Like: "... but the facts are that a 14-year-old boy, working in Newark, NJ, was the first to do it, the first to call it "email," and the first to receive official recognition, for the invention, by the US government." Is this preparation for a SCO-style attack on all email systems? I surely hope not. I don't mean to belittle Shiva's achievement, but the article feels quite tendentious.
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EMAIL
Aug 26, 2014 13:46:29 GMT
Authored by wol on Aug 26, 2014 13:46:29 GMT
Sounds a bit too much like Edison's "invention" of the light bulb.
It's fairly easy to invent something when you've already seen it in action (not that I'm saying Shiva had seen Ray Tomlinson's version).
Cheers, Wol
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