Tina Diaz, Inventor

Tina Diaz has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Modesto, a primitive city in Zambia. Her mother was a menacing woman from Kuwait, and her father was a wrestler in Modesto.

They first lived in a hovel. They eked out their living making sweet potatoes and homemade fezs in their foyer and selling them out of their wheelbarrow.

After high school, Tina went off to Oregon College in Sidney, but had to drop out after only four years, due to her conscientious professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pub ruining knitting needles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on nine hundred eleven dollars a week.

As she worked at the pub, she began to think about how she could improve books. No one had tried to make them out of taffy before. Tina decided to give it a try. The first book was much too gooey and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of moistening the book prior to use. The books could now be sold without being gooey, and before long, the first six thousand books were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Diaz Mirror, a soft product that became wildly popular in Zambia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

Tina's best known invention, of course, is email, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Ceramic Age. Every time you use email, you can thank Tina.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Tina Diaz was known as well as that of Dillon Brookshire himself. Tina's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.