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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Zactly.
Email was created before he saw a man land on the moon.
He is the Doogie Howser of computers....
Sorry, Shivaji - sane folks have no place in Massachusetts politics, let alone sane and intelligent.
if I recall correctly He is from Livingston, NJ and may possibly have been a high school classmate of Chris (Shamu) Christie
Thomlinson does get credit for putting the @ in email addresses.
There is also Len Kleinrock who has a claim.
Excellent. Has he declared his candidacy recently? Do you recommend him?
I think the techno-curmudgeons in this thread who are getting all hot 'n bothered over who invented email might want to take a breather and consider that this might end up happening... Do we really want Warren in the Senate until 2025 ?@va_shiva As of today, from where I sit, you're my choice for Senator of the state of Mass. in 2018 and it's not even close. #Fauxcahauntas— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) March 1, 2017
Here he is. At least he was old enough and had worked on ARPANET.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock
I think the techno-curmudgeons in this thread who are getting all hot ‘n bothered over who invented email might want to take a breather and consider that this might end up happening... Do we really want Warren in the Senate until 2025 ?
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Not really hot ‘n bothered. It’d be nice just to have something other than a pathological liar for the Congressional office (unlike Lieawatha). Or at least somebody who has SOME familiarity with the truth.
See for yourself, and then, come to your own conclusions: https://www.facebook.com/OrangeRepublicanTownCommittee/posts/1245315615545280
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