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

[Dave Walden]

>Note, I think he copyrighted a program named email (I don't think he 
>could copyright the word email). I suppose one could name a program 
>"email" for an adventure game or for any other application. The name 
>"email" seems not to proof so much about this being email and what 
>came before isn't email.  Plus we all know "email existed way back 
>in the time-sharing systems before the ARPANET email, please we know 
>that many earlier email systems than this new guy's had To, From, 
>Subject, etc., fields.



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