{"id":23322,"date":"2016-03-09T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-defense-department-got-mad-at-darpa-for-creating-email"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:43:47","slug":"the-defense-department-got-mad-at-darpa-for-creating-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-defense-department-got-mad-at-darpa-for-creating-email","title":{"rendered":"The Defense Department Got Mad at DARPA For Creating Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-defense-department-got-mad-at-darpa-for-creating-email.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of email, died this past weekend. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Tomlinson was a brilliant man. And he\u2019s being mourned around the world as the person who brought us the @ in our inboxes. The format novak@gizmodo didn\u2019t just invent itself. Tomlinson did that. But the fascinating secret history of email was that the US Defense Department was initially angry that Tomlinson helped create it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an assignment at all, he was just fooling around; he was looking for something to do with ARPANET,\u201d Raytheon spokeswoman Joyce Kuzman said in a statement about Tomlinson\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/the-defense-department-got-mad-at-darpa-for-creating-em-1763274070\">http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/the-defense-department-got-ma...1763274070<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of email, died this past weekend. He was 74. By all accounts, Tomlinson was a brilliant man. And he\u2019s being mourned around the world as the person who brought us the @ in our inboxes. The format novak@gizmodo didn\u2019t just invent itself. Tomlinson did that. But the fascinating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62483,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions\/62483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}