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The obituaries all cited Raymond Tomlinson, who died over the weekend, as the "inventor" of email, but out in the cold in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Shiva Ayyadurai bristled.
On Mahashivaratri, email pioneer Shiva Ayyadurai prays for recognition - Times of India
Is there anything that didn't come from India? I don't want to sound hating, but this is too much. Every single thread somehow tells the world WRONGLY that Indians did this. We were ALREADY in space before we allowed the Indians to come take our tech jobs away. And we were running Super Computers like CRAY-XMP back when the world didn't know how to spell the word computer. A punching card used to be considered a "computer" and we were running IP based internet back in the 60's (Thank you DARPA).
So please, forgive me and everyone and spare us with this "India invented all things modern" bullshiit. The gentlemen from MIT has ALWAYS been listed in MIT for like 5 decades as the "creator" of modern communication (e-mail) and there are PLENTY of proofs dating back. Including when he first met with a few executives from IBM and mentioned the idea. They all looked at him and said "you think the @ sign in my e-mail will actually tell the computer to send it to a specific number"? (back then your URL used to be a number, like say you type Yahoo this would be the actual public IP people would type and even that was in experimental stage). Anyway, Ray just laughed hard on that question. RIP Raymond!! Let's not STEAL the credit from where its deserved!!
@Irfan Baloch @Horus @Oscar : the above post isn't being written in a hateful manner. I know MIT very well and I know Ramond's legacy too. Just making sure that per the OP, the credit isn't stolen from Raymond (may God bless his soul).