Ray Tomlinson didn't invent email. I invented email!!! Ray Tomlinson is the Devil!!!!!
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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No, not exactly. He basically refined it in the late 70s as a teenager. Created the concept of the “inbox” supposedly.
Now that I think of it, I have heard of this guy before...
Look, if he’s willing to take Warren out, he has my full support.
He’s also married to Bobbi Fleckman ! HAH!
Why? His parents who immigrated here were almost certainly socialists and the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. I doubt if he's much of a constitutionalist.
Are we talking a real "dot" Indian versus a fake "feather" indian? This could be fun to watch.
Can you provide that list? Seriously...
So far all I have is Curt Schilling and that’s a “maybe but probably not” as far as I can tell.
There are four candidates so far. State Representative Geoff Diehl and businessman Rick Green are also running. Not sure of the platforms of any of them.
Most Indians that left India were fleeing a socialistic country for the capitalistic opportunity that this country provided.
Give me a break - he’s a Republican and his parents came to America to get away from that crap.
Indians make up a very large conservative constituency in New Jersey. These people are all Trump supporters. That’s the world he grew up in.
Lot of info on this guy.. many lectures on youtube.
Graduated from high school early.
Speaks well, and could probably shake Warren up.
Liberals will lose it.
I’m just encouraging, not demanding... but please keep him on the radar.
Exactly.
Ray Tomlinson didn't invent email. I invented email!!! Ray Tomlinson is the Devil!!!!!
Yeah, I thought the same thing, considering ARPANet was running back in the late 1960s - early 1970s.
When I saw this 53-year-old guy (who isn’t much older than I am) claim to have invented e-mail, I thought “Wow, this must have been the smartest toddler ever!”
Reminds me of Al Gore claiming to invent the Internet.
This certainly is a surprise! His name came into prominence when he “married” Fran Drescher (”The Nanny”) in 2014. They went around telling everyone they were married, including Entertainment Tonight. I just read he says they actually hadn’t been officially married, and Wiki says they split in Sept 2016. Both of them were certainly an “odd couple” for a while.
He really seems to be highly intelligent as in MIT-type intelligence. Not sure how he would be as a politician against Warren but it would be worth a try!!
First, Al Gore had to invent the Internet.
Then, Al Gore found an 8-year-old boy and asked him to send the first email.
In ten years or so, they’ll make a Hollywood movie, “based on a true story” ... starring Oprah Winfrey as the inventor.
The guy wrote a program in 1978, slapped a copy-write notice at the top and called it “EMAIL”. Now he’s encouraging people to believe he invented electronic mail. He didn’t. He’s as reality challenged as Warren.
FYI, Allen Rodney Waters, from Cape Cod, is another Republican who is running for this seat.
Title: He says he invented e-mail. Dispute him at your own risk.
:)
Another fake?
What a delusional idiot.
He should be working with Fauxcahantas instead of against her.
They are symbiotic.
Exibit “A”
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.
You invented email when you were 15?
You had access to EBB’s then? Your parents would have been pissed off about that phone bill.
Did you also build your own computer to “Invent” this?
You are an invention of fiction.
Email was never actually invented so much as it evolved from various mediums while you and I were still losing our baby teeth in the 1960’s.
Zactly.
He will probably claim he invented the ampersand to make it easy for him to send email.
And yes, I understand @ was not used back then.
Next, he will claim he came to this idea after creating the OSI model and having a vision of how ARPANET could be exploited in the business community to make work easier by typing your thoughts on a screen and having the ability to send them immediately.
He probably invented the “Let me know if email read” protocol.
He probably invented thin-net, FDDI and other LAN/WAN transmission mediums.
I don’t care if this guy claims he is a Republican and even won a case for his claim of inventing email, which he does not receive some type of royalty.
Barack Hussein Obama...
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