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Re:Who Invented Email? Just Ask…Noam Chomsky by yummyfajitas on Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:20PM (#4121232)
...origins which apparently have some relation to semantics...

No, the origins have nothing to do with semantics. The debate over who invented "email" is dependent on the definition of the word "email". If you define email in certain ways, Van Vleck's 1961 system was the first email system. By Chomsky's definition, Van Vleck's 1961 invention doesn't qualify as email, but Ayyaduri's does.

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