Gawker sued over email inventor claims
 

A bloke who did not invent email is suing Gawker for saying he did not invent email.

Shiva Ayyadurai gained 15 minutes of fame by telling the press he had invented email, at age 14, when he appears to have written an early implementation of email long after others had done it. There have been cases where the press have printed his claims and he managed to get a series into the Huffington Post.

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai wrote an email software program for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in 1978. By all accounts, it was a perfectly decent email system that allowed the UMDNJ staff to send electronic messages. In 1981, Ayyadurai registered the copyright on his program, which was called EMAIL.

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