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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:05:00 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002201600280.1121@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqbEduZ1-4dMeCtQnF4Wf2RLAbZo++YxvZSgd3UjPGhiA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Richard Salz wrote:

> He's a loon.  Search for the techdirt.com articles.
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 7:07 PM Ed Carp <erc at pobox.com> wrote:
> >       I've noticed that some guy named Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai is all over 
> >       Twitter, claiming that he is the inventor of email. He doesn't 
> >       look like he's nearly old enough. I thought it was Ray 
> >       Tomlinson. Looks like he's trying to create some press for his 
> >       Senate run.
> > 
> >       Anyone older that me here that can either confirm or deny?
> >       Thanks!

Back when I was posting "On this day" events, I had this for Ray 
Tomlinson for 23rd April:

     Ray Tomlinson, computer pioneer, was born on this day in 1941.  He is
     credited with inventing this weird thing called "email" on the
     ARPAnet, in particular the "@" sign to designate a remote host
     (although some jerk -- his name is not important -- is claiming that
     he was first).

-- Dave


       reply	other threads:[~2020-02-20  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-02-20  5:05   ` dave [this message]
2020-02-20 21:50     ` rtomek

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