Forgotten and abandoned: Where is the 14-year old Indian boy who invented email?
Any of you remember Shiva Ayyadurai?
Few of you might have heard about him as a person who claimed to have invented email.
V. A. Shiva Ayyaduraiis an Indian-born American scientist and entrepreneur.
Shiva is notable for his controversial claim to be the inventor of email.
His creation, however, was an inter-office mail system with an inbox and was called email.
While Ray Tomlinson went on to hog the limelight for email, Shiva was fighting a lone battle.
Tomlinsons email was different from Shivas email.
It used the @ symbol to identify the computer from which it was being sent.
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source: www.techworm.net
