Hate email? Getting rid of it wouldn’t make you happy | Andre Spicer
by Andre Spicer from Technology | The Guardian on (#169QT)

If you ask anyone what the worst part of their job is, they are likely to respond with one word: email. Over the weekend, the inventor of this contemporary curse, Ray Tomlinson, died. Tomlinson came up with the idea while developing the Arpanet - the predecessor of today's internet - in 1971. He and his colleagues were scratching their heads about what to do with their new invention, wherein one application eventually became email. "Don't tell anyone!" he told a colleague. "This isn't what we're supposed to be working on."
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