This reminds me of the kerfuffle about the invention of e-mail: > Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the "inventor of email".[73] His

This reminds me of the kerfuffle about the invention of e-mail: > Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the "inventor of email".[73] His claim is based on an electronic mail software called EMAIL, an implementation of interoffice email system, which he wrote as a 14-year-old student at Livingston High School, New Jersey in 1979.[15][74][note 1] Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertion—from organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution—were followed by public retractions.[15][75] These corrections were triggered by objections from historians and ARPANET pioneers who cited the fact the history of email dated back to the early 1970s.[12] Ayyadurai started a campaign in 2011 in which he rebranded himself as the "Inventor of Email"; according to a paper published in Information & Culture, he "provoked a dramatic succession of exaggerated claims, credulous reporters, retractions, and accusations that a cabal of industry insiders and corrupt Wikipedia editors are colluding to hide the truth."[76] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#EMAIL_invention_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#EMAIL_inventio... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email