He maintains he invented email when he was like 14 years old.
He married Fran Drescher
He shits on RFK even though they're on the same side when it comes to vaccine and the Ukraine war.
Also Shiva is running for president even though I am pretty sure he isn't eligible since he was born in India. He probably should return any campaign donations before he gets in trouble for fraud.
Shiva copyrighted an interoffice messaging program called EMAIL in 1982. There was no mechanism to patent software at that time. It was limited to use for communication with University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark, New Jersey. But not externally.
At the release of his software he writes: "I, per- sonally, feel EMAIL is as sophisticated as any electronic mail system on the market today." and goes on to write "I hope all of EMAIL's users have as much fun using it as I had designing and developing it"
So in short, he wrote and copyrighted a program called EMAIL, but didn't invent electronic mail itself. It had been around for a few years before.
Shiva might be nuts.
He maintains he invented email when he was like 14 years old.
He married Fran Drescher
He shits on RFK even though they're on the same side when it comes to vaccine and the Ukraine war.
Also Shiva is running for president even though I am pretty sure he isn't eligible since he was born in India. He probably should return any campaign donations before he gets in trouble for fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX-4Sd-WADg @~1:02
Doesn't he have a patent for emails? Maybe not everything to do with them but some aspect?
Shiva copyrighted an interoffice messaging program called EMAIL in 1982. There was no mechanism to patent software at that time. It was limited to use for communication with University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark, New Jersey. But not externally.
At the release of his software he writes: "I, per- sonally, feel EMAIL is as sophisticated as any electronic mail system on the market today." and goes on to write "I hope all of EMAIL's users have as much fun using it as I had designing and developing it"
So in short, he wrote and copyrighted a program called EMAIL, but didn't invent electronic mail itself. It had been around for a few years before.
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/05/22/laying-out-all-evidence-shiva-ayyadurai-did-not-invent-email/