Do not listen to this Shaya guy. I actually interviewed Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, the two guys at DARPA that coded the first email system in the late 1970s-early 80s. Cerf made the first commercial deployment of the technology as strategy chief at MCI. It was called MCI Mail. Timeframe is around 1984-85. MCI Mail initially was used for internal communications, since there was no commercial Internet at the time. This Shaya guy had nothing to do with any of that engineering.
Do not listen to this Shaya guy. I actually interviewed Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, the two guys at DARPA that coded the first email system in the late 1970s-early 80s. Cerf made the first commercial deployment of the technology as strategy chief at MCI. It was called MCI Mail. Timeframe is around 1984-85. MCI Mail initially was used for internal communications, since there was no commercial Internet at the time. This Shaya guy had nothing to do with any of that engineering.