Yea he did...in 1979 he created a proprietary system at Rutgers University dubbed 'email' with the same inbox/outbox, Cc & BCc, memo, and drafts thaf we see in normal email UI today before the word "email" was first used comercially 

So its technically a semantics argument on whether or not he invented email. 

Do more research Hodl

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