<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div>Hi Ben, <div><br></div><div>Thank you for the fast and detailed response. I figured that the reporter didn’t get the story quite right.</div><div><br></div><div>Funny thing is that I knew something was going to get published since I was next to David Monroe when somebody called him to ask about it.</div><div><br></div><div>I work with David at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology, you should visit us some day, we’ll give you the VIP tour ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Invitation is extended to other members of the list if you are around.</div><div><br></div><div>My email address at the museum is jorge.amodio@samsat.org</div><div>Cell 210-724-8385</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br><div dir="ltr">- Jorge (mobile)<div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 1, 2019, at 1:43 PM, "ben@2barkers.com" <ben@2barkers.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">I believe that the reporter used the term email as a generic term for a text message across the net. I have not and would not use "email" to refer to a teletype-to-teletype message of the sort that Marty and I exchanged. To me, "email" doesn't apply to communications before Tomlinson's invention of host-to-host textual messages using the @ sign. I believe that the reporter was searching for a term to apply to the sort of real time textual message that I sent that would be conceptually understood at a high level by a technologically unsophisticated readership, and he settled on "email". I believe that "real time end-to-end textual message" would be far more correct, though more difficult for a general press readership to understand. I did try to make clear to him that it was not until a year and a half later when Tomlinson invented email and introduced the @ sign that email came into being.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please let me know if I can further clarify.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/Ben Barker</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Sent from my LG V20, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Jorge Amodio<jmamodio@gmail.com></jmamodio@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Fri, Nov 1, 2019 1:09 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>Steve Crocker;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>Ben Barker<a href="mailto:;internet-history@elists.isoc.org">;internet-history@elists.isoc.org</a>;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [ih] First E-Mail ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div>Thanks Steve!<div><br></div><div>Ben I believe that the SA Express News article that mentions you is badly titled, was it an email or real time end-to-end message?<br><br><div dir="ltr">-Jorge</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 1, 2019, at 1:00 PM, Steve Crocker <a href="mailto:<steve@shinkuro.com"><steve@shinkuro.com< a="">> wrote:</steve@shinkuro.com<></a><br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Might as well ask Ben directly.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jorge Amodio <<a href="mailto:jmamodio@gmail.com">jmamodio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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.<br>
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Can anybody confirm that?<br>
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My recollection is that Ray Tomlinson was the first one to send an E-Mail through ARPANet.<br>
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Thanks & Regards <br>
-Jorge<br>
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