New Delhi: Around 294 billion
emails are sent and received on a daily-basis in the world. It would be pretty
obvious to believe that most of the people on the planet would be having an email
account.
Even if those, who have no email account so
far, are striving hard to become tech-savvy in this technology-driven era. But,
while using your email account, have you ever wondered who is the person behind
such a historic invention?
Currently, serving as a scientist in US, Mumbai-born VA Shiva
Ayyadurai at the age of mere 14 in 1979 had invented the most useful thing of
today, the 'email'.
While in high school in New Jersey, a Tamilian boy, Ayyadurai
had developed the electronic version of an interoffice mail system and called
it 'EMAIL'. Later in 1982, he got his invention copyrighted.
Keen to study computer programming, Ayyadurai in his
teen had attended a summer program at the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences of New York University (NYU).
The bright scholar from Livingston High School in New Jersey
began his work on email system for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey. His hard work and dedication paid and he became the man behind
EMAIL invention.