http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/the-history-of-email/
Chalk this one up to Critical Research Failure (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalResearchFailure)
Techdirt has been doing a nice job debunking this BS:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140903/05352128399/huffington-post-doubles-down-has-mit-professor-spread-blatant-falsehoods-about-creation-email.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140905/10463128432/huffington-post-view-bogustan-standing-behind-blatantly-false-claims-isnt-journalism.shtml
Did the actual reporters who work for the HP really need THIS nonsense to realize that working for this thing damaged their credibility? Hasn't HP published enough obvious rubbish in the past to do that?
Apparently not