Ira Einhorn: I Invented The Internet

Way back before he killed Holly Maddux and even before he helped found Earth Day, Ira Einhorn graduated from Central High School in 1957. Since he’s in prison now, he couldn’t attend the recent 50th reunion, but he did have a brief autobiography in the program.

Einhorn, 67, listed his address as Houtzdale, Pa., where, after 20 years on the lam, he is a lifetime guest of the commonwealth for murdering girlfriend Holly Maddux in 1977.

Einhorn does not mention Maddux in his Central High bio. He does say that he left the money economy in 1963, “creating a lifestyle based on information transfer.”

He credits himself with “creating an international information network under the auspices of Bell of Pa. and AT&T . . . called the ‘Internet before the Internet’ that reached into 27 countries . . .”

On his long list of accomplishments, Einhorn mentions the murder this way: “My inadvertent involvement in intelligence matters regarding the work of Tesla and Yugoslavia led to my being framed for a murder I did not commit.”

Wow, who knows what Ira Einhorn could have done if he hadn’t murdered someone. We might have flying cars!

Clout | Central reunion: Ira sends his regrets [Daily News]

Ira Einhorn Blogs, Predicts Future

From the Inquirer’s Michael Klein today comes the news of Ira Einhorn’s blog, which is so far just book reviews of recent books he’s read as well as a long entry about how he says he was screwed over at his trial.

The website is done by J. Nayer Hardin, who says Einhorn didn’t get a fair trial and all that blah blah blah. (She is also a “founder of and a conductor on the Computer Underground Railroad, a computer division of the original.”) In addition to the winding, strange essays on books, we also learn, in this one post, that Ira happens to be a psychic:

9/11 could not have been totally unexpected. I do not have access to the president’s daily intelligence briefing, but long before I was forced to leave France, July of 2001, I told my wife that a major terrorist attack would soon hit the United States. I could feel it in my blood. Her letter about 9/11, received soon after that date, expressed deep shock at the event and wonder about my prediction.

Thanks for letting us know you didn’t have access to the president’s daily intelligence briefing, Ira. It’s appreciated.

Inqlings | Ira Einhorn has a blog, through friend [Inky]
End of Faith [Ira the Unicorn]