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The Real Inventor of Wireless Email?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-invented-the-hippo dept.

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."

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  1. Prior Prior art by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't there documented evidence of a much earlier wireless email system in operation?

    Wasn't it Moses who came down from the hilltops saying he had received a message from god?

    Now, that was either a beta crackberry or someone's having a laugh at our gullibility.

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