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Who invented e-mail?
June 24, 2011
Over at the Times site, Errol Morris has just posted the last installment of a five-part series about the role his late brother Noel played in the invention of e-mail. In addition to being a fascinating and valuable oral history of the time-sharing era of computing, it's a moving memoir and a meditation on life's refusal to be calculable:
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