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That is the website of a person whose claim to have invented email has been widely dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai https://en.wikipedi

That is the website of a person whose claim to have invented email has been widely dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai

justabystander 11y ago
Correct! It's also notable that his claims just barely stay out of legally actionable material by his insistence on differentiating email from EMAIL (in all caps), and his insistence that EMAIL is an "electronic version of an interoffice mail system". So he's the creator of software that he named "EMAIL", but not an inventor of anything. His claims are full of similar term redefinitions and self-aggrandizing language. Despite his aggressive campaign to be recognized for something notable other than his participation in pseudoscience, marketing BS and corrupt government organizations, the rest of the world remains unconvinced. He had a single class he was teaching at MIT at the time all the media articles hit, in which he introcuded a new term that he used to aggressively market himself as an expert in an "emerging field". His various sites link between each other as proof of his excellence. This type of self-referential press is a specialty of his. He even directly edited his own Wikipedia article as part of his media campaign. You'll note that the first paragraph ends in a sentence with a dozen "references". This is how his edits always look and the page was originally full of sentences with 5+ references, which made tracking down legitimate information quite difficult. It's undergone heavy editing since then, but he still drops in for edit wars. There's a good chance that snake oil is involved if he's anywhere near a project.
thomasfromcdnjs 11y ago
Aha he is married to Fran Drescher (The Nanny!
- nocman 11y ago
  Sounds to me like they didn't actually get married. From his wikipedia article: 'Ayyadurai later said it was not "a formal wedding or marriage", but a celebration of their "friendship in a spiritual ceremony with close friends and her family.' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai )
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bobosha 11y ago
Shiva is a dick if ever there was one...I overlapped with him at MIT and never met a more vain publicity seeking a$$hole. He was almost universally despised at MIT.

That is the website of a person whose claim to have invented email has been widely dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai

justabystander 11y ago

Correct! It's also notable that his claims just barely stay out of legally actionable material by his insistence on differentiating email from EMAIL (in all caps), and his insistence that EMAIL is an "electronic version of an interoffice mail system". So he's the creator of software that he named "EMAIL", but not an inventor of anything. His claims are full of similar term redefinitions and self-aggrandizing language. Despite his aggressive campaign to be recognized for something notable other than his participation in pseudoscience, marketing BS and corrupt government organizations, the rest of the world remains unconvinced. He had a single class he was teaching at MIT at the time all the media articles hit, in which he introcuded a new term that he used to aggressively market himself as an expert in an "emerging field". His various sites link between each other as proof of his excellence. This type of self-referential press is a specialty of his. He even directly edited his own Wikipedia article as part of his media campaign. You'll note that the first paragraph ends in a sentence with a dozen "references". This is how his edits always look and the page was originally full of sentences with 5+ references, which made tracking down legitimate information quite difficult. It's undergone heavy editing since then, but he still drops in for edit wars. There's a good chance that snake oil is involved if he's anywhere near a project.

thomasfromcdnjs 11y ago

Aha he is married to Fran Drescher (The Nanny!

nocman 11y ago
Sounds to me like they didn't actually get married. From his wikipedia article: 'Ayyadurai later said it was not "a formal wedding or marriage", but a celebration of their "friendship in a spiritual ceremony with close friends and her family.' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai )

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bobosha 11y ago

Shiva is a dick if ever there was one...I overlapped with him at MIT and never met a more vain publicity seeking a$$hole. He was almost universally despised at MIT.