The Real Inventor of Wireless Email?

theodp writes "The NY Times reports on Geoff Goodfellow, possibly the real inventor of wireless e-mail, who says NTP was concerned that his earlier work might undermine its patent claims and went to some lengths to ensure that it did not, including gagging Goodfellow during the RIM lawsuit. Not only did high-school dropout Goodfellow - who hung out as a teen in the lab of Doug Englebart - describe wireless e-Mail in 1982, he implemented it in the early 1990's."

Comments

Re:OMG, a comms channel. We could, like, communica

[Kuxman]

More importantly, who first said, "You've got mail"?

Typo

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

So is his name Goodfellow or Goodnight?

We need more Goodeditors.

Re:Typo

[bad_fx]

Goodluck.

Re:OMG, a comms channel. We could, like, communica

[fatphil]

And what did the staff and students at the university of Hawaii use back in the 60s to exchange data digitally and near-instantatiously?

My goodness - they did things like invent the 'aloha' protocal that's still in use today on various media.

Nothing's new...

FP.