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Self-Proclaimed ‘Inventor of Email’ Is Back With Another Defamation Lawsuit

Ayyadurai has long claimed that he was the bona fide inventor of what we refer to as email. It’s true that he wrote code for an electronic messaging platform at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1978, and subsequently copyrighted that software, which he referred to as “EMAIL,” four years later. Ayyadurai’s talent is not lost on anyone — including Masnick.