August Quote by Shiva Ayyadurai

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

“At the present rate of technical development, electronic mail is probably no more than one or two decades away, so in the Tehaneys' world…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5…

— Peter Sagal

The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature…

— Trevor Noah

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting…

— Roger McGuinn

E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

In 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy working in Newark. He did in fact create the inter-office mail system and called it email. What…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

— Shiva Ayyadurai