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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Techdirt has a rather fun new line of merchandise, featuring the logo “I Invented Email” which, as its official announcement notes, allows you “to express your opinion on certain events.” Also mugs, hoodies, etc. Obviously I was hoping for something more like “Fake historians for Raytheon,” but what can you do?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=580 height=325 style='width:6.0416in;height:3.3854in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D291D3.C2EC2AB0" alt="I Invented Email"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170209/13555136678/some-new-techdirt-t-shirts-hoodies-more.shtml">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170209/13555136678/some-new-techdirt-t-shirts-hoodies-more.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://teespring.com/i-invented-email#pid=369&cid=6521&sid=front">https://teespring.com/i-invented-email#pid=369&cid=6521&sid=front</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BTW: I see that SIGCIS is featured, along with IEEE Annals and Wikipedia, prominently the “media kit” Ayyadurai’s launched when he filed the lawsuit against Techdirt. <a href="http://inventorofemail.com/thefacts/">http://inventorofemail.com/thefacts/</a> It’s interesting that he continues to avoid using my name.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Raytheon and Tomlinson's supporters -- the ARPANET cabal -- used the occasion of Dr. Ayyadurai gaining global recognition in 2012 for the invention of email to discredit him. They unleashed vitriol on the Washington Post reporter and forced the editors to print a completely nebulous correction that Shiva Ayyadurai was "…not the inventor of electronic messaging." However, Dr. Ayyadurai never claimed to be the inventor of "electronic messaging," whose history goes back to the Morse Code telegraph of the 1800s.<br><br>Part of this cabal is a group called Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS). Under the aegis of its "scholarly" blog, its chief spokesperson attacked Dr. Ayyadurai as well as any other experts and journalists who dared to share the historical facts about email's origin from Newark, New Jersey. At the same time, this "scholar" thanked "special interests" from Raytheon/BBN and the ARPANET community for supporting and contributing to his verbal lynching of Dr. Ayyadurai. The blog continued to write defamatory comments calling Dr. Ayyadurai a self-promoter and even attacking Dr. Ayyadurai's seminal research in the systems biology of genetically engineered foods (GMOs) - a topic that this group has absolutely no expertise. All of this took place, while these "scholars" and "historians" deliberately ignored the plagiaristic and truly self-promotional history of Raytheon, and praised the "aw shucks" humility of Ray Tomlinson, the non-inventor of email.<br><br>Other unethical individuals and internet rags colluded to simply erase the facts and ridiculed journalists such as Mo Rocca of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>CBS' Henry Ford's Innovation Nation Show</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and Doug Aamoth of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Time Magazine</span></em>, who shared the truth about email's origin. These individuals included trolls at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>TechDirt</span></em>, who parroted false histories of email history to create bogus citations for the heavily censored and manipulated Wikipedia, with its constant revisionism and purges.<br><br>Typical revisionism included vengeful and retaliatory Wikipedia edits. For example, following the initial announcement, on November 3, 2016 of Dr. Ayyadurai's victory over Gawker Media, this cabal enforced a "consensus," in Wikipedia parlance, so as to denigrate Dr. Ayyadurai, in the first sentence of his Wikipedia article, as someone merely "notable for his controversial claim to be the 'inventor of email'."<br><br>Other surrogates in this attack included none other than David Crocker, and the online "Museum of Email & Digital Communications," where Crocker is listed as an "Analyst" along with Richi Jennings, another "Analyst" at this "museum," who is an active Wikipedia editor removing and manipulating facts on Dr. Ayyadurai's Wikipedia page. Along the same lines, Raytheon's Chief Scientist, who has collegial relations with Crocker, is on the Editorial Board of the journal<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing</span></em>, which publishes false histories of email, while ignoring the 1978 invention of email in Newark, NJ.<br><br>The nexus of collusion among the "internet pioneers and historians," and their surrogates is deliberate, as evident in their efforts to create fake news on their blogs, and "scholarly journals" for documenting a false and revisionist history, which trolls on Wikipedia then reference as "fact." This insidious system of generating fake news provides an incredibly tight-knit engine for falsifying the history of email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>