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'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky

Posted by timothy on from the today's-bizarro-news-continues dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Shiva Ayyadurai, who famously claims to have invented email as a teenager in the 1970s, is back. A statement attributed to Noam Chomsky offers support for Ayyadurai's claim while attacking 'industry insiders' for stating otherwise. The statement reads: 'Given the term email was not used prior to 1978, and there was no intention to emulate "...a full-scale, inter-organizational mail system," as late as December 1977, there is no controversy here, except the one created by industry insiders, who have a vested interest to protect a false branding that BBN is the "inventor of email," which the facts obliterate.'"

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  1. Re:Ask a better question by Purity+Of+Essence · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love Slashdot. Even when someone is right, they're wrong.

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    +0 Meh
  2. Re:more importantly by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL

    a statement against authority figures, and an appeal to reason, as spoken by an authority figure

    I agree with the quote, I just find the paradox funny

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  3. Re:Ask a better question by EdIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    I invented Facebook.

    Happened when I was 9 years old and some dickhead was bullying a bunch of friends of mine. One of my friends played the part of bait and when the oaf came barreling around the corner he came to a violent halt when his face started to merge with a large dictionary.

    Word for the day... Concussion.

    Seriously though, it was a term for awhile. That dude got facebook'd.