<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Jack,<div><br></div><div>Watch out, this self-promoting lunatic is going to US Senate and he may sue you at some point in time for misrepresenting his own version of history:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/</a></div><div><br></div><div>;)<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">-- <div>./</div></div><div><br>On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:34, Jack Haverty <<a href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org">jack@3kitty.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 07/05/2018 05:11 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>what was the time frame for CSS Mail?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>v</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>In 1968/9 I was a regular user of CTSS and remember using MAIL. It</span><br><span>wasn't new then, just another command in the system.</span><br><span></span><br><span>If "email" is considered broadly as electronic communication, I remember</span><br><span>using IBM JCL in 1967 to send messages from one human to another, via</span><br><span>punch cards - e.g., asking the operator to mount a tape.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Prior to that, of course there was the telegraph and telegrams. Perhaps</span><br><span>that would be "electric mail".</span><br><span></span><br><span>I was in Paris recently and spent several hours at the Musee des Arts et</span><br><span>Metiers, essentially a museum of technology. One section is devoted to</span><br><span>"Communications". I noticed one display cabinet containing a machine</span><br><span>that was somehow used to "allow several telegraph operators to share the</span><br><span>same wire" - so I guess Multiplexing has been around since the 19th century.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Apparently humans need to communicate, and as each new means of</span><br><span>transporting messages comes around, someone figures out a way to use it</span><br><span>to talk with others.</span><br><span></span><br><span>There's lots of interesting old stuff preserved in those glassed-in</span><br><span>display cases.</span><br><span></span><br><span>When you look into one of those cases and see a well-worn and carefully</span><br><span>preserved piece of history, and your immediate reaction is "Hey, I used</span><br><span>to use one of those!" -- that's when you know you're getting old.....</span><br><span></span><br><span>/Jack Haverty</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______</span><br><span>internet-history mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org">internet-history@postel.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history</a></span><br><span>Contact <a href="mailto:list-owner@postel.org">list-owner@postel.org</a> for assistance.</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>