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[Andrew Meade McGee]

I am amused that in the article that Dag pointed out, there is this line,

"Ayyadurai has been credited <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2gBAjbQK8>with
"inventing" email, but his role in developing the technology behind
electronic mail has been disputed
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/va-shivaayyadurai-inventor-of-e-mail-honored-by-smithsonian/2012/02/17/gIQA8gQhKR_story.html>
,"

in which both "contradictory" sources point to the Washington Post; the
pro-Ayyadrai one is a video interview of him talking and the opposing one
is a set of corrections to an existing blogpost. Sometimes I feel like
modern media is an Ouroboros, just referencing itself.

Speaking of Fran Drescher, this whole incident seems like it could be a
parody of a plot from her nineties-era television sitcom "The Nanny," where
the self-aggrandizing character Mr. Sheffield has made a fool of himself
claiming to have invented e-mail and it's up to the only sane one in the
room, the sharp-witted British butler (or in this case our own Tom Haigh,
sharp-witted British computer historian) to set things right.

--AMM

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Andrew Meade McGee
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Dag Spicer <dag.spicer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow.  Just wow.
>
>
> http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Fran-Drescher-Marries-Shiva-Ayyadurai-Inventor-Email-274280731.html
>
> Dag
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