Posted on 03/01/2017 10:30:20 AM PST by bryan999
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the prospective field of 2018 Republican challengers to Sen. Elizabeth Warren added another name: Shiva Ayyadurai.
The 53-year-old Cambridge resident and self-described inventor of email publicly announced his plans to run against the Massachusetts Democrat in a tweet at 4:23 a.m. Saturday.
Ayyadurai, who says he is a Republican, tweeted Sunday night that he had opened a campaign office on Concord Avenue in Cambridge and called Warren a “fake fighter,” in addition to referencing the senator’s controverted claims of Native American heritage.
According to a 2012 correction in the Washington Post, while Ayyadurai does hold the copyright to a computer program called “EMAIL,” electronic messaging predates his 1978 work. Computer historians credit fellow Massachusetts resident Ray Tomlinson with sending the first modern email in 1971.
Nevertheless, Ayyadurai sued Gawker and TechDirt for articles casting doubt on his claim to the invention. Gawker founder Nick Denton settled with Ayyadurai for $750,000 following the media company’s bankruptcy last year, much to the displeasure of internet pioneers.
The Boston Globe recently profiled the local computer scientist, who runs several startup companies out of an office building in Cambridge.
Ayyadurai joins state Rep. Geoff Diehl, businessman Rick Green, and former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling on the list of Warren’s potential 2018 Republican challengers.
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It would be the FAKE Indian vs the REAL indian !
(MA is my home state btw)
“He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.”
C’mon, Taxachusetts . . redeem yourselves for some of your many past sins, and get rid of Fauxahontas
She represents EXACTLY WHAT’S WRONG with politics. A liar, a fraud, a divisive Dimwit who doesn’t give a damn about anyone else except herself and cronies
So you have no idea where he stands on anything, he makes spurious claims about inventing email, yet because he’s running against Warren and is from India you want everyone to jump on his bandwagon? Maybe instead he should team up with Al Gore in 2020 on a unity ticket, combining the man who invented the internet and the man who invented email?
Mr. Ayyadurai’s twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/va_shiva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Already has 25K followers and climbing...
Those on Twitter, please follow and give this guy some support !!! I think he could seriously neutralize Warren. I can even see millennials liking this guy.
A good campaign slogan for ALGORE...Go On The Line.
Unless this is a pseudnym for “Ray Thomlinson”, he’s a liar. And he’s a bit young to have done it in 1971.
But when Liar meets Liar, who cares who wins?
This should be good; a real Indian running against a fake Indian
Come on... he’s a Republican! He’s openly challenging Warren. She needs to go... I don’t think Schilling has the nerve to deal with running against her... I like Schilling a lot and was ready to support him...
Who else is going to send her packing? Answer: Nobody!
You want to be stuck with her in the Senate until what - 2025 ? Screw that !!
Even if he’s a moderate, it’s a seat we need to take back...
Read his feed and get back to me.
He might be good, but I can’t see MA people voting for someone with such a strange sounding name. Bay Staters are too predictable to do that.
And he’s a Trump supporter!
I say keep this guy on the radar.
I’ll see if I can find some other articles and info about him and will post...
So, he’s 53 and invented email? Here’s a link to an early RFC for SMTP, and it’s dated 1982. He would have been 18 or 19 years old at the time.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821
Maybe he invented a program called “email,” but I doubt he came up with the original concept and execution.
Srsly? This guy is a charlatan. EVERYBODY know algore invented and internet and email. This guy needs to be impeached now. I don’t care if he’s in public office or not. He needs some impeaching. ;-) Then again, if he can take down (yewwww) liawatha, more power.
And they call it the World Wide Web. You can e-mail anyone!
Nina
Exactly, 53? So he was 7 years old.
Hey, he’s more Indian than fauxcahontas..... heh, heh.
Better to have “Sabu” from the Simpsons Quickie Mart than the re-incarnation of Patsy Schroeder behind a mask of corporate liberal globalist feminazi lawyer.
There are a number of candidates running against Elizabeth Warren. I'm not sure this guy is the best one.
LOL, my thought exactly. “Sabu” from the Quickie Mart on the Simpsons— he has more pragmatic reality than the blue eyed high cheekboned fraud.
When did Al Gore move to Cambridge?
Hey they elected a guy named: do-cock-us
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