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.
In ten years or so, they’ll make a Hollywood movie, “based on a true story” ... starring Oprah Winfrey as the inventor.
He is the Doogie Howser of computers....