From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:46:19 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002201143190.1121@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACYmRNChAjojWUWFLcMYerQnhdXs-h5+R0KTmf+nuEUJXci=cQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, 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!
Ray Tomlinson is said to have first used the "@" symbol, but email as such
certainly existed before then; I first used it in the 70s on an IBM 360,
but it was definitely already in use at the time.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 0:46 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
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 [this message]
2020-02-20 2:12 ` Warren Toomey
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