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I personally traced the history of email back to at least 1971: https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/ https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/ After writing t

I personally traced the history of email back to at least 1971: https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/ https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/ After writing that someone let me know about this guy and his claims, and I think I added a somewhat flippant section on it. Of all the people who might have 'invented' email, it certainly wasn't him.

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It's so weird that this guy thinks he invented email in 1982. I wrote one of the first email programs for PC-DOS in 1982 [1] [2], and we certainly didn't think we were "inventing" email. As you note in your article, it had been around for years! (We called it "electronic mail" back then.) The only novel things about our program were: 1. It used a graphical user interface built with the character mode graphics on the IBM Monochrome Display. 2. We had the ability to connect to multiple email services using a scripting language, along with point-to-point dial-up connections to other users of our program. But the email services we connected to had been around for quite a while before that. How else would we have gotten the idea of connecting to them - and more than one of them? We had definitely never heard of this guy and his EMAIL program! [1] https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/1983_11_BYTE_08-11_Inside_the_IBM_PC#page/n199/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/1983... [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=6i8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=6i8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=P... The references are from 1983, but we were working on the program though most of 1982.