some in NY,NY will tell you Ray Tomilson "created email". but there's little or no proof of what he did when. Ray worked for (darpa) but did not file the RFC for email in 1973. the reports of the first use of @ in address are, well, hmmm. more facts say that all kinds of messaging systems on darpa existed, ie and "!, bang notation" and "@" notation as well, and other symbols were also used (taken, rather). but were not used for text mail messages "delivered to a mail box" by default. the "guy who made mail" really just altered existing darpa code to put "tags" in the file transferred so each message was discernable.
Network Working Group: J. White, filed RFC 524 in 1973 (yes, computing and desktops are much older than bill gates and microsoft: it's called UNIX)
there were VERY early email programs (before even DOS versions of mail, that were ports of sendmail), ie "rmail". these only dumped text into files with "tags" - a program (rmail) was necessary to see the file as "a list of items to read" (a mail reader). early mailers didn't "deliver" they sent and received and delivery was not done
Eric Allman, at berkeley, made Sendmail, the mailer most used that made "email what email is" as far as most people are concerned. www.sendmail.org It was designed to get messages through to teachers despite continual failures throughout the campus: and it did that so well Sun Microsystems Unix used it on their Internet backbone servers and local servers, and most mailers were derived from it. released in 1979. worked at UC Berkeley, then AT&T. Berkeley had unfortunately stolen AT&T unix code where they were on a gov grant to only "work on it, not take it", and the lawsuits still continue over it's use. it's specifically allmans doing how email gets from one pc to another (the most of the work!!), thought the "handshakes" were older still.
neither of them filed RFC 524 in 1973, J. White did. Back then probably DARPA (the military) was the only people managing and filing RFC's - though they co-operated AT&T and even people requesting RFC's to be made (rather, they did so in the 80's 90's by modem or internet).
http://www.postfix.org/sendmail.1.html
Wietse Venema
Wietse is an asian who made faulty TCP checking software in unix (allowing breakins). (That's "not fair to say" since at the time it was good enough.). What is %100 true is his name is on the the FreeBSD manual page and he had ZERO to do with development of them.
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ANDROID? allot of it is run off stolen AT&T unix, also Google hacks (there's allot of debate about that company, politically, if they are foreigners and if hillary clinton steered money to get it back during election cycle)
Most of the "authors" cited in the legal sections of ANDROID / GOOGLE were NOT the authors
you can't beleive all the stories you hear since many of the inventors are DEAD, and living people often will attempt to alter history
much of the time creators worked off earlier work
(ie, back from the 1950's there were computer terminals with vector graphics, keyboards, that could solve certain equations (they needed) and graph with crips lines. but PC couldn't match much of what that did until the 1990's)
HOWEVER: if USA spent $$$$$$$$ money makign something and CHINA is selling it to us, you can be pissed if your family has paid taxes since 1950 in USA