From: Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:11:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23e6d5ca-c9c6-694d-0613-c66626579be8@solar.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACYmRNChAjojWUWFLcMYerQnhdXs-h5+R0KTmf+nuEUJXci=cQ@mail.gmail.com>
A version of email was included in the original DARPA version of the
internet. This was early 1970s. In fact, when we played with and
evaluated it at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, our report noted that the
internet would probably not be very useful for exchanging scientific
files (as had been the original purpose). However, we did note that
email might become very useful. ;-)
Deborah
On 2/19/20 4:06 PM, Ed Carp 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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-20 0:06 Ed Carp
2020-02-20 0:11 ` Deborah Scherrer [this message]
2020-02-20 0:39 ` George Michaelson
2020-02-20 0:18 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-02-20 0:40 ` Richard Salz
2020-02-20 0:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-20 2:12 ` Warren Toomey
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