Whic is it now? Incas or Greeks? Somebody mentioned Romans and Aztecs too? This is puzzling.
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Ancient Incas, using knotted strings (quipu) instead of packets of bits. El quipu--or e-mail--was the name given to the electronic format used on DARPA-net.
Ancient Greeks invented email but our Western culture learned about it through works of an Arabic mathematician and philosopher Thabit ibn Qurra... ibn Qurra translated Greek texts and summarized the findings in his pivotal work "El Maail, a Greek Way of Transcendent Communication" published in Cordoba, Anadalusia in 889 AD. "El Maail" continued to live in obscurity until the 12th century when copies of the book start to show up in Northern European monasteries. The rest of the story is well known and it has to do with Gutenberg, Newton, a couple of math professors out of Princeton, and finally Stanford University. It was there at Stanford that a small group of professors teamed up with a research team from Qualcomm (led by Andrew Viterbi) to craft an updated communication protocol which is globally used even today.
Al Gore
This guy mom:
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