[ih] The Atlantic on Email

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• From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
• Date: 11 Jan 2016 20:40:41 -0000
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>> Agree with Noel, it was widely used within the ARPANET . . . almost immediately as I remember.
>
>Not to mention the uucp world, and email over rscs became very big between IBM mainframes
>in academia. So the meme spread well before there was a real Internet.

>> You have to wonder about a historian who can?t interpret the historical record in context.

If you look at the online article again, there's now an asterisk next
to the 1971 date which links to a footnote which says that the origins
of e-mail are contentious and links to a bunch of reasonable other sources,
including one debunking the guy who claims he invented EMAIL in 1982.

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