E-mail, Invented By Indian-American, Turned 32 Years On July 15 This Year
It was the 32nd year of the electronic mail on July 15, 2015. This revolutionary mailing system was invented by a 14-year-old boy named VA Shiva Ayyadurai, an Indian-American, according to indiatimes.
He was at the age when his friends were crawling up in schools for grades. He had already invented the "full-scale emulation of the interoffice mail system which he called E-mail."
The system helped to reproduce functions such as Inbox, Outbox, Memos, Folders, and Address Book, all of them elements that are part of whatever we send and save online.
Still, in spite of his historic discovery which got official American recognition in August 30, 1982, no one applauds him. He is thought of as a "fake", not as the real man who started emails, chats and instant messaging.
He gave an interview to Huffington Post last year, when he said he was just 14 when he developed the technology. Yet his modest background prevented him from getting recognition.
"The reality is this: in 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy and he was the first to create electronic office system. He called it email, a term that had never been used before, and then he went on and got official recognition by the US government," he told Huffington Post.
Meanwhile, two big US corporations called Raytheon and BBN had a continuous PR drive to malign the brown boy from Newark, New Jersey, who was the real inventor of email according to yourstory.
While there have been a host of emails to denounce him, he is reported to have said: "The main contention against me is that I am a self-promotional businessman. I am an internet entrepreneur. What does that have to do with the material facts of who invented email?"
