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Why Your Email Address Has An @ In It
Email is something many of us have only been using for the past 20 years, but its roots go back much, much further than that. The earliest traces of email even date back to the 1960s, and according to Wired, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson was responsible for many of email’s earliest innovations, including the use of @ in email addresses.
Corruption, Lies And Death Threats: The Man Who Pretended To Invent Email
Shiva Ayyadurai, pictured above, is a shimmering intellectual. He holds four degrees from MIT (where he lectures), numerous patents, honours and awards. He also says he invented email, and there’s a global conspiracy against him. Guess which one of these statements is true.
Did The Inventor Of Email Not Invent Email?
According to a bunch of geeks who mobilized from all corners of the digital world, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is has been masquerading for years as the pioneering mind behind email.
Email Is 40 Years Old This Month
The Next Web notes that October marks the fortieth anniversary of the first sent e-mail. Obvious jokes about how long it was before the first spam email was sent aside, October’s a momentous month for those of us who use email. These days, that’s all of us.
The Day E-Mail Was Invented
Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world’s first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word “log.” Their connection crashed before they got to “g.” [BoingBoing, CR4, image via]
Happy Birthday, Internet! Let’s Celebrate Your History, You Old Gal
We’ve had many cake-themed posts lately, but it’s not that we’re fat-asses. We’re just celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Internet. And there’s a lot to celebrate, because, as the Guardian shows, she’s seen a lot of action.
Here Is The First Photo Of The Internet
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