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[ NNSquad ] "Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part Series To Promote The Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email?"
"Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part Series To Promote The
Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email?"
(Techdirt): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
"Again, that might make for a nice story line if there were some
factual basis behind it, but there isn't. The history of email is
well-documented from multiple sources and it began way, way before
1978. And while early versions were somewhat crude, by 1978 they had
basically everything that Ayyadurai claims to have invented (it is
entirely believable that Ayyadurai, as a bright kid, independently
came up with the same ideas, but he was hardly the first). There was a
messaging system called MAILBOX at MIT in 1965. You can read all the
details of it here, including source code. Ray Tomlinson is frequently
credited with inventing the modern concept of email for the internet
by establishing the @ symbol (in 1972) as a way of determining both
the user and which computer to send the email to. By 1975, there were
things like email folders (invented by Larry Roberts) and some other
basic email apps. As is noted, by 1976 -- two years before Ayyadurai
wrote his app -- email was 75% of all ARPANET traffic."
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Why? Because Huffington is only interested in the clicks, that's why, and
if they thought they could get more clicks by claiming Caligula invented
email, they'd be running those stories too.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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