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Sapphire2Sea 2 points ago +2 / -0

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.

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LeftistsAreInsane 1 point ago +1 / -0

The Shaya guy has supporting documents on his website that back up his claims, including articles and patents.

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Sapphire2Sea 1 point ago +1 / -0

Who cares? I actually know the two engineers who developed the code that created bidirectional email. I have receipts to prove it too. Patents only last seven years, and don't necessarily refer to new creations. You could take trademarked open source code by Red Hat, use a variant and create a new app. It doesn't mean you created Red Hat.