[SIGCIS-Members] Resources on Ayyadurai saga

[Pierre MOUNIER-KUHN]

Hi, 

AFAIK, "The History of Electronic Mail" within Multics is described in http://multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html 
by Tom Van Vleck, who wrote the initial Multics "mail" command in summer of 1969, as part of the MIT-GE Multics project. 
Multics "mail" was a reimplementation of the MIT CTSS command MAIL written by Noel Morris and himself in 1965. 

The Multics mail facility was developed further in the 1970s by Honeywell. The Multics "Extended mail facility" and the "Executive mail facility" were built on top of the Multics secure messaging implementation. 
Additional Honeywell documentation on "mail" is listed in the Multics Bibliography, http://multicians.org/biblio.html 

Comments and add-ons welcome. 
Best, 
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn 


De: "Murray Turoff" <murray.turoff at gmail.com> 
À: "Ian S. King" <isking at uw.edu> 
Cc: "members" <members at sigcis.org> 
Envoyé: Lundi 23 Janvier 2017 05:54:23 
Objet: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Resources on Ayyadurai saga 

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: 

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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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Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens 

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Value Sensitive Design Research Lab 

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