Earlier this week, tech pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is known for having invented email, passed away. Dr VA Shiva Ayyadurai has come out to say that the reports that the inventor of email did
not die. Ayyadurai claims that Tomlinson invented "simple text messaging" and that Tomlinson invented email as we know it today.
Ayyadurai claims to have invented email in 1978 when he was
a teenager working as a research fellow at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). "I had been assigned to create a software system that duplicated the features of the
Interoffice Mail System, which was simply a manila envelope that physically circulated around a workplace. The envelope contained the Interoffice Memo with Attachments, and comments from various
recipients on a given topic. I named my software “EMAIL,” (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first US Copyright for that software, officially
recognising me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognise software inventions, since the US was not recognising software patents, he told The Indian
Express.
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