Ray Tomlinson
Four Reasons Why the Internet Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Humanity
Man, the internet is great. But it's also extremely dreadful and terrible.
Email Is Awful, so Let's Stop Sending It
In the span of a couple decades, email has gone from being a novelty to an innovation to a convenience to a necessity to a nuisance. Let's just get rid of it.
AT&T Could Have Bought the Internet in 1971
Recent victories over Hollywood's Stop Online Piracy Act have reinvigorated the fight against a corporate takeover of the internet.
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Ray Tomlinson Sent the First Email But His Inbox Is Still a Mess
In 1971, while working as an engineer on the government-funded ur-internet known as "ARPANET":http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/11/25/this-computer-gave-birth-to-the-internet, Ray Tomlinson invented email as we know it. His wasn't the first piece of...
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