The Man Who Invented EMAIL

Believe it or not, one man invented email. It wasn't a bunch of programmers working for Arpanet, including Ray Tomlinson, the appropriator of the "@" for an "at" sign.

No, it was this schmuck Shiva Ayyadurai, some teen prodigy at MIT.

The inventor of email

Well, turns out, after having suckered the Smithsonian and the Washington Post that it was he, Shiva Ayyadurai, who had singlehandedly invented the complete system we know as email -- the cc, the bcc, the @ sign, the "re" -- in 1978, while still a teenager. Well, take a look at the link above and tell me that's not what he claims.

Even to me, a not-historian of the evolution of the Internet, knew that no one person invented email, that one guy came up with packet-switching, another guy came up with TCP/IP, another guy came up with FTP, another guy came up with HTTP . . . even I knew that.

But this fudgepacker (brown on the outside, shit-colored on the inside) claims he invented email.

It turns out that he didn't invent, er, EMAIL, really, I mean the email everyone else invented, but he invented EMAIL, the name of a program that used email as its base. Like the guy points out in this article, it's like taking an airplane and calling it AIRPLANE and then saying you invented the "Airplane," something which flies in the air with propellers, etc.

What a fucking shameless cretin. He should be hanged by his curry-stained fingernails as he shouts "Let me down, Sahib! I was meaning no harms! Let me down and I will invent for you a nice Vindaloo chocolate cake!" and then lined up against a wall and strangled with a dhoti.