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

Naturally this was discussed on the exBBN list. In my view, this "new guy" has described something not quite like what the rest of us understand when we say "email". I think there are three useful documents on the actual history of email as we know it linked to under "Relevant to Chapter 20" at

<http://walden-family.com/bbn/#ref-email>http://walden-family.com/bbn/#ref-email

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