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NewsMicrosoft’s Channel 9 introduces .Game, a new series focused on game development using .NET Pin
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NewsNASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path Pin
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NewsIncredible new image shows the Earth and Moon from Mars Pin
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NewsMan who says he invented e-mail sues Techdirt for disputing claim Pin
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professionalH.Brydon10-Jan-17 7:34 
Ummm yeah, he claims that he invented email in 1978. I was a computer user then, and sent what would be the equivalent of email (with a different name) back in, I think, 1970 (and if not then, then no later than 1972). I was not an inventor of the technology; I was a user. It was a user to user message system which I believe was developed locally on our IBM /360-65 mainframe at the University of Manitoba (and networked to other machines). I also later (?) used a system called Plato (?) circa 1973 or 1974, I think from the University of Minnesota, which had a similar messaging system, which was more networked.

This guy might have invented the term "e-mail" but he didn't invent what it was.
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NewsThe year ahead for Java, JavaScript, Swift, and Universal Windows Pin
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NewsRansomware groups have deleted over 10,000 MongoDB databases Pin
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NewsMicrosoft formally shuts down its TechRewards program Pin
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NewsMicrosoft launches a new cloud platform for connected cars Pin
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NewsThe reality of developer burnout Pin
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