The name, V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai may not ring a bell, but perhaps some of you might figure that "shiva" gives away the name as of Indian origin. It was in 1978, as a 14-year high school student in New Jersey that Mr.Ayyadurai invented email. He was part of a select group of students who were working as interns at Brookhaven National Laboratory with top notch scientists (Les Michaelson in this case).
"He was given a room to put his first computer in and start the lab for computer science, which was one computer and one HP mainframe. And Les said, “Hey, would you like to create an electronic mail system?” So I said, “Yeah,” and I was just nodding my head, thinking he meant sending electricity through paper, because this guy’s a particle physicist." (excerpt from Time, see the link below for more interesting details)
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