Hello, that's interesting, !, but perhaps the price of the stamp is a bit high ? But seriously, one thing has not changed since the first emails : how to send math by mail ? I still use a fixed font and so far it survived html5 and other mixed languages. Best regards, Simon Plouffe 2014-09-04 15:50 GMT+02:00 Victor S. Miller <victorsmiller@gmail.com>:
My favorite is "missle mail": https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/missile-mail.pdf
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:01, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Henry>
There's a real howler going on on Huffingtonpost.com about the history of email.
An MIT professor (!) named Deborah Nightingale claims that email was invented in 1978.
Perhaps she hasn't talked with anyone at MIT/Stanford/CMU/BBN/Xerox/IBM/DEC/BellLabs/... about this?
The Boy Who Invented Email -- History of Email
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-weber/the-history-of-email-boy-who-inven...
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Just adding my fuzzy memories to the confusion. The MIT AI Lab Incompatible Timesharing System had an instant messaging command. E.g. to talk to Tom Knight,
:SEND TK
mumble mumble <ctrl something, probably z> .
But if he wasn't logged in, as soon as you typed TK, ITS would insert "(MAIL)". ("Oh cr@p,
he just logged out on me.") I.e., mail was mostly considered just a poor substitute for chatting. I came West in '74. I'm pretty sure this was in place well
before.
The Stanford AI Lab independently developed a mail system, and many of its old timers think
they were the pioneers.
"Electronic Mail" started gaining attention in the 80s. The Postal Service, wanting to
get in on the action, held a big conference someplace. But they thought "electronic mail"
meant faxing.
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