[caver]

Cool story! Thanks for posting.

[beethovenfan]

Oh I thought Al Gore did that (snicker).

[Mears]

I have been watching “The Americans” this evening and it takes place in the early eighties———ARPANET is mentioned frequently in Season Two.

.

.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Hillary approves. Now she can blame him for everything.

[bigbob]

Interesting point he makes about how he saved the @ sign!

[COBOL2Java]

Wonder what he thought of this movie

[Axeslinger]

Oh! So it’s his fault I can’t get away from this damn phone?!?

[The Duke]

Hmmm...... Fidonet?

[Maine Mariner]

How can this be? I thought Al Gore invented email.

[JimSEA]

The Wiki description of the first reception his innovation in which he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine. Before, the "Mail" was only sent to users of the same machine. The story I like is: "At first, his email messaging system was not thought to be a big deal. When Tomlinson showed it to his colleague Jerry Burchfiel, Tomlinson said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on.""

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, it was text based email. And still today, Friends do not Send Friends HTML (in emails).

Especially not HTML emails with scripts.