The World Has Forgotten The Guy Who Invented E-mail

This is the story of a forgotten man who invented the “e-mail”. Check out more details on him, here!

Thursday, March 2, 2017, 11:04

We hardly take out time to know and learn about the people who have invented some of the best things that we've been using in our lives. One such thing is the e-mail.

With e-mail being a part of our daily lives now, we cannot even imagine our day to day office lives without it!

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Do you know about the man who invented e-mail? We bet, this is something that would hardly strike to us, as we would be busy sending e-mails not giving enough credit to the person who invented it!

Here are the details of the man who actually invented e-mail and how the world has forgotten him!!

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He Was A Tamilian

His name is V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai and he is an Indian-American scientist born to a Tamil family in Bombay, India. He left India when he was just 7 years old. He began his work on the e-mail system for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey when he was just 14 years old!

He Was A Very Keen Observer

He minutely observed that each secretary in the University had a typewriter and in addition to it had an Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Carbon copy paper, Folders, Address book, Paper clips (this was used for attachments), etc... These were the things that they used every day to create and process incoming and outgoing mails.

He Developed A Virtual System

He created a computer program that had over 50,000 lines of code! These codes electronically replicated all the features of the interoffice mail system and hence he was successful in creating a virtual system.

He Was Officially Recognised By The US Government

On August 30, 1982, he was officially recognised as the inventor of electronic mail by the US government. He was also awarded the first US Copyright for his 1978 invention.