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@gmail.com> À: "Ian S. King" <isking@uw.edu> Cc: "members" <members@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@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@momentllc.com > wrote: BQ_BEGIN 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.” _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org , the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal Value Sensitive Design Research Lab University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China." _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org , the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org BQ_END -- please send messages to murray.turoff@gmail.com do not use @ njit.edu address Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org