Hi.<div><br></div><div>It seems that Network World is asking the wrong question, from a historian's perspective. It doesn't matter when the specific term 'email' was coined. What matters is the evolution of electronic mail, a topic on which Craig Partridge has written an excellent history for the transactions of the ACM (I think). Anyone have a link?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Another correspondent sent in the following data:<br>
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Oh, a Google Groups search produces a 19 May 1981 use of "EMAIL" in<br>
the context of discussing CompuServe --<br>
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/fa.human-nets/1ZZF2m_S_zs" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/fa.human-nets/1ZZF2m_S_zs</a><br>
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Noel<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Eric G<br>
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