Steve Jobs tried to make email 'a walled garden' in the 1980s, reveals inventor of email file attachment

Charlee Gothard
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"I realised that was not the way it should go" says open sourcer Nathaniel Borenstein

Steve Jobs attempted to develop email into a "walled garden" system in the 1980s by trying to headhunt the Carnegie Mellon team who were revolutionising email file attachments, the technology's pio...

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