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