'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky 288
Ian Lamont writes "Shiva Ayyadurai, who famously claims to have invented email as a teenager in the 1970s, is back. A statement attributed to Noam Chomsky offers support for Ayyadurai's claim while attacking 'industry insiders' for stating otherwise. The statement reads: 'Given the term email was not used prior to 1978, and there was no intention to emulate "...a full-scale, inter-organizational mail system," as late as December 1977, there is no controversy here, except the one created by industry insiders, who have a vested interest to protect a false branding that BBN is the "inventor of email," which the facts obliterate.'"
Re:Ask a better question (Score:4, Funny)
I love Slashdot. Even when someone is right, they're wrong.
Re:more importantly (Score:3, Funny)
LOL
a statement against authority figures, and an appeal to reason, as spoken by an authority figure
I agree with the quote, I just find the paradox funny
Re:Ask a better question (Score:4, Funny)
I invented Facebook.
Happened when I was 9 years old and some dickhead was bullying a bunch of friends of mine. One of my friends played the part of bait and when the oaf came barreling around the corner he came to a violent halt when his face started to merge with a large dictionary.
Word for the day... Concussion.
Seriously though, it was a term for awhile. That dude got facebook'd.