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<div dir="auto">On November 1, 2019 13:58:56 Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">Checking with the “Elders” the veracity of a recent article in local news about Ben Barker (a San Antonian) sent the first E-Mail Oct 1st, 1969.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Can anybody confirm that?</div>
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<div dir="auto">My recollection is that Ray Tomlinson was the first one to send an E-Mail through ARPANet.</div>
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</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ben slmost certainly didn't send an email through the {then 4 node} ARPANET in 1969. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">the hosts were still struggling just to get connected.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">/bernie\</span></div>
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