An Indian-born scientist is waging a campaign for recognition as the ‘child inventor’ of email.
Shiva Ayyadurai, a 50-year-old United States-based bio-scientist, has published a book challenging claims that the American computer programmer Ray Tomlinson invented email and asserting his own claim as its creator.
According to Mr Ayyadurai, Mr Tomlinson’s creation in 1971 was a primitive form of text messaging, while he had invented what we know as email in 1978 when he was a 14-year-old boy helping out the Newark dental school where his mother worked.
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