[SIGCIS-Members] Email was invented by a school boy in 1978 says Washington Post & Time Magazine

[Al Kossow]

Newspapers exist to gather eyeballs for advertisers. The absurdity and
self-promotion of this Œinventor¹ served the purpose of attracting attention
and Œbuzz¹, which seems to have been the point all along from the
newspaper¹s point of view. Anyone being interviewed by the press should keep
this in mind and try to find out pretty quickly what the reporter¹s desired
Œspin¹ is on a story is, and plan your response or rebuttal to his position
accordingly. 

On 2/22/12 8:18 AM, "Thomas Haigh" <thaigh at computer.org> wrote:

> 
> Anyway, it does make me sad about the gap between all the great historical
> work that has been done by our community and the complete lack of use made of
> it by the media in this case. Despite a mass of criticism on the comments
> thread and presumably in emails from readers the Washington Post has done no
> more that append it¹s its defensive and absurd ³clarification.²
>  

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