[SIGCIS-Members] Resources on Ayyadurai saga

[Murray Turoff]

GE had general time sharing internationally using BASIC a number of us
internationally used it for "email"  we all had the same account access and
an email identified who it was to in the title of the basic program which
turned out to be a set of REM(ark) statements with what ever message we
want to share internationally.


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> Another bit of interesting information I found while doing some research
> for my dissertation, take a look at this oral history on the CHM site:
> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102658003.  Warner
> Sinback, in discussing his work with General Electric, talks about creating
> an email system.  The timeframe is not clearly defined but it is obvious
> from the text that it is prior to 1979, easily placed in the early 1970s
> and perhaps as early as the late 1960s.
>
> The body of 'prior art' accumulates.  It certainly seems that the idea of
> email was a parallel evolution across the computer industry, not a point
> event - and certainly not in 1979 (or whatever date Ayyadurai is claiming
> this week).  -- Ian
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Glenn Bugos <Glenn at momentllc.com> wrote:
>
>> Don’t think this tidbit has appeared on the list...A few years back there
>> was a rock musical in London called Loserville.  It’s now closed, though
>> American high schools are picking it up.  It is set in 1971, focusing on
>> Michael Dork, a nerdy high school student confused by girls, with a tight
>> group of friends, striving to invent email as his “one way ticket out of
>> Loserville."
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDUqgUylpVA
>>
>> Here’s a high school in Oregon, performing the last act of the play,
>> where the brilliant, beautiful and underestimated Holly, blackmailed by the
>> scion of military contractor Arch Systems, enjoys the Eureka moment of
>> putting “@“ in the address (:45) then passes her secret along to her friend
>> Michael (3:30). “After all this time/it seems so obvious/we’re making
>> history/we’ll be notorious/so many sleepless nights/it never came to
>> us/it’s so simple/it’s genius.”  Then “It’s the birth of the digital/God
>> what a miracle/we are really living in the future now.”
>>
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> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
> The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a
> Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens
>
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