What we now call email has many developers over the years. My office neighbor at Berkeley in the late 70s, Eric Allman, developed "delivermail" which later developed into "sendmail", both of which included internet-related technologies that were critical. I also recall using email at Berkeley in the mid-late 70s; the system, like the "talk" program (which was an early texting approach) were part of the Berkeley Software Distribution, which was Berkeley's version of ATT&T's Unix.
Many of the early work on other aspects of email were done in the early 70s by, among others, Tomlinson. at BBN, who created email for the ARPANET, the original DOD-funded prototype for the internet. Shiva certainly should get some credit of being a clever teenager in the late 70s and developing his own set of email ideas and software, but his claim of being the "inventor of email" is partly based on his writing a program called "email." He also copyrighted the term later. His work was more of a user interface than the other, earlier work, which dealt with the actual internet-related guts of the idea. So did he do impressive work at a young age? Sure. Did he "invent" the actual significant core complexity of email? Nope.
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What we now call email has many developers over the years. My office neighbor at Berkeley in the late 70s, Eric Allman, developed "delivermail" which later developed into "sendmail", both of which included internet-related technologies that were critical. I also recall using email at Berkeley in the mid-late 70s; the system, like the "talk" program (which was an early texting approach) were part of the Berkeley Software Distribution, which was Berkeley's version of ATT&T's Unix.
Many of the early work on other aspects of email were done in the early 70s by, among others, Tomlinson. at BBN, who created email for the ARPANET, the original DOD-funded prototype for the internet. Shiva certainly should get some credit of being a clever teenager in the late 70s and developing his own set of email ideas and software, but his claim of being the "inventor of email" is partly based on his writing a program called "email." He also copyrighted the term later. His work was more of a user interface than the other, earlier work, which dealt with the actual internet-related guts of the idea. So did he do impressive work at a young age? Sure. Did he "invent" the actual significant core complexity of email? Nope.
"Many of the early work" -> "Many of the early aspects"
I subscribe because your publication keeps track of what the politicians in Phoenix and surrounding areas are up to. You are concise and to the point with enough humor to keep it interesting . This is the best investment in reporting I make. Keep up the good work. Thank you both, Diana
The election fraud crowd has graduated from undermining faith in the security of our elections to literally undermining security in our elections.
Seems like this should be a big story. 🤷
So what party did former teacher Brown belong to? One guesses it would have been highlighted if he was a Republican.