#11 Did Errol Morris' Brother Invent Email?

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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There was a lot that Errol Morris never knew about his brilliant, distant older brother Noel. Decades after Noel's death, Errol read an internet comment that said his brother had invented email. So he launched an investigation to find out if it was true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is ReplyAll, a show about the internet, and I'm PJ Boat.
0:13.3	Arrow Morris makes movies.
0:15.2	Before he made movies, he was a private eye, and he still got the obsessiveness of a
0:19.2	good detective.
0:20.5	Which means that when he writes something online, he breaks one of the most bedrock rules
0:24.4	of using the internet.
0:26.0	Do you always read all of the comments on your pieces?
0:29.5	I try to read a lot of them.
0:31.3	I can't guarantee I read all of them.
0:33.6	Sometimes there's a lot of comments.
0:36.8	But usually I read them for negative stuff.
0:41.1	Who wants to read positive stuff?
0:43.5	A few years ago, Arrow published an essay about a professor he'd once had who threw an
0:47.8	ash tray at his head.
0:49.0	It was 21,981 words.
0:51.8	Again, Arrow is an obsessive.
0:53.8	And as an obsessive, once the piece was written, he decided to wait deep into the comment
0:58.5	section.
0:59.5	Where he found something new to obsess over.
1:02.1	Comment 82.
1:04.0	I can read it to you if you like.
1:06.7	Yes, please.
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