A scientist talks on the invention of email, GMOs and peer review

This claim should raise one's eyebrows. The origin of email is well known, see Origin of Email. It was already an established technology in 1974 when I began sending email on the Arpanet, the Internet's predecessor.

Thanks for the information, very interesting.I do want to make it clear for Faith why her claim about Shiva Ayyadurai and email is false. Faith claimed that "he invented email at age fourteen and it was stolen from him." Whatever his accomplishment at age 14, it cannot be true that what we know as email today was stolen from him because the roots of modern email predate his "invention." Even if his "invention" is uniquely distinct from what came before, which as you mentioned is RFC 561, today's email systems evolved from RFC 561 and not from anything Ayyadurai wrote. I don't recall when we started calling electronic mail "email", but I do remember that it was part of a general trend at the time to put "e" in front of words, the same way we later started putting "i" in front of words. I do also recall contrasting electronic mail with "snailmail", which might have begun before the term "email" came into usage, but I don't recall exactly.Edited by Admin, : Remove duplicate sig.