It’s hard to believe and nobody remembers a 14-year-old boy named V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, This Indian origin American boy was the first to invent the most commonly used messaging service of today’s generation 32 years back.
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This Tamil boy came up with a concept full-scale emulation of interoffice mail service when he was in Livingstone, New Jersey and he called it E-mail. He observed the daily mail service around the office which included Drafts, pins, Carbon copies, folders and decided to program it into a computer. He managed to create a computer program using 50000 lines of code which replicated the interoffice mail system at that period of time.
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People argue over his claims and said that E-mail existed in the 70s but evidence shows the other way. After working for few year in CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) he finally decided to form a company named Innovative Corps which is an idea to convert ideas of the high school students into practicality, just like the way how he achieved success 32 years back. V.A. Shiva Aayadurai can rightly be said as the father of E-mail.