This is about the 4th article posted about the “inventor of email”. Zero credibility...he’s a publicity hound.
Maybe, but he’s got 4 more degrees from MIT than you or anybody else here has.
The truth is out there somewhere.
I see you're a critical thinker. :-) After the second article about this guy I went and googled him myself. He's a publicity hound politician-wanna-be also.
He's proof that just because someone has four degrees that doesn't mean they're not a crackpot.
Having used email on DEC 10 systems back in 1975 when this guy was 12, his claim to have invented it sounded like a joke to me.
And it is. He apparently wrote an in-house email server at his mom’s teaching hospital in late ‘79 and then copyrighted it under the name “EMAIL” in ‘82.
So when he says he invented EMAIL, he’s not talking about it generically...he’s talking about his own little program that he wrote in high school. Which is an exercise for lots of comp sci majors anyway, but he did it in HS, so he sees it as a big deal...but it’s just a joke on everyone else.