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About Shiva and email: he wrote an application and gave it the name "email". Email itself was a generic capability and had been a thing for years before that (though since this was the 70s, its use was far more limited than it is today). As Wikipedia notes, "In 1971 the first ARPANET network mail was sent." I recall using it in a university network in the mid-1970s (as well as "talk", which was an early IM application), and I think some companies had email applications then as well. Shiva's work in the late 70s to 1980 was certainly an achievement for a teenager, but it was a far cry from being the first in that space.

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