V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Who?

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai was 14 years old when he developed the technology we now know as email. So it was not the Pentagon as I believe since 1996.  At that time a met a person who told me about his experience with CompuServe since 1986.

Who invented what and when it is always a matter of who tell the story.  

Corrupted historians, rewriting history while being on the payroll of dominant institutions, have piled up so much misinformation through out the years, that it is hard to say black from white and red from brown.

It took us 500 years to replace the "Discovery of America" with "The Encounter of two worlds".  I found it silly at first, because I was programmed to see Europeans as the story tellers, the ones who went through so much pain to bring civilization to the New World.  With time I learned that civilization means to impose their religious views on the indigenous people and to steal their land and riches, kill their families and to enslave the survivors.

When Jesus Christ started preaching, some people commented that it was impossible for him to be any good since he was from Galilee, and nothing good would come from that place. In the words of V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, " I developed the technology we now know as email.  It was done in Newark, NJ, one of the poorest cities in the United States. It was done by a dark-skinned immigrant kid, 14 years old."

The masses get excited with new discoveries, new consumer products make their way to the stores, while people wait in line to be the first throwing money to get the product but with no curiosity at all about how it works beyond the features available to end users.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

Many of us are guilty of  "lol" when presented with that statement.  Of course the statement is inaccurate but in no way a laughing matter.  Senator Gore was an important force, pushing legislation, hearings and funding for programs related to the then called Information SuperHighway.

Ignorance, misinformation, pre-conceived ideas, get us to continue the cycle of more ignorance and misinformation.  Let us doubt of what we have been told.  Let us find and honor the facts.