Ask HN: Who Invented Email?

3 points by stereoradonc ↗ HN
There are many claimants, and Google search reveals a lot of SEO'd information. I am genuinely curious about how the protocol evolved, and please include references based on your statements.

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There's a reason I didn't rely on the WikiPedia! It can be edited.
If you're not going to believe any references, why ask for them? "That one guy" is a fake and a fraud, but if you want to find something on the web that supports him, I'm sure you can succeed.
We could provide a read-only wikipedia but it wouldn't have much content ;)
We had email on our IBM 370 back in 1978. It was implemented using a virtual card reader/punch device driver using the as-mentioned VNET.