[math-fun] Herstory of email?!?

There's a real howler going on on Huffingtonpost.com about the history of email. An MIT professor (!) named Deborah Nightingale claims that email was invented in 1978. Perhaps she hasn't talked with anyone at MIT/Stanford/CMU/BBN/Xerox/IBM/DEC/BellLabs/... about this? The Boy Who Invented Email -- History of Email http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-weber/the-history-of-email-boy-who-inven...