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[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Dave Walden wrote:
> Dave Crocker has a website that points to several documents on the 
> long history of contributions by various people to the "invention" of 
> email as we know it today:
> http://emailhistory.org/
> Most inventions involve prior technology; but as Dave noted to me 
> recently, some come into existence relatively fully developed by one 
> person or a small group of people, while others (like email) take a 
> lot of small steps from here and there over a protracted period of 
> time to reach a fairly fully developed state.

One thing that always surprises me is that folks don't consider TELEX or 
TWX as an early form of electronic mail.  As I recall, in its later 
days, there was both inter-exchange routing and store-and-forward 
service.  Granted that Western Union and AUTODIN were sort of "the 
enemy" in the early days of the ARPANET, but still....

Miles Fidelman


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