Essentially, yes. Shiva Ayyadurai developed some little system that he called "email", which had little resemblance to the email we now use, and then recently

Essentially, yes. Shiva Ayyadurai developed some little system that he called "email", which had little resemblance to the email we now use, and then recently claimed that he "invented email". And this in spite of the fact that the real email was developed and thoroughly documented by other people well before this guy's "invention".