{"id":1493,"date":"2011-06-24T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2011-06-24T01:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:03:43","slug":"who_invented_em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Who invented e-mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a moving memoir and a meditation on life&#8217;s refusal to be calculable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/19\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-one\/\">Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/20\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-two\/\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/21\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-three\/\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-four\/\">Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/23\/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-five\/\">Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a moving memoir and a meditation on life&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}