<div dir="ltr">Hi -<div><br></div><div>I have the archive of the Msg Group messages that were exchanged between 1978 and 1985 on my computer for other research. I just did a quick search and "email" doesn't appear in the corpus, but "e-mail" appears exactly once, in a message from J. Pickens from May of 1979 (predating the journal article by a month):<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Subject: Msggroup#1175 The medium is *not* the mechanism<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Perhaps a significant reason why environments have not adopted<br>electronic tools is because of a growing awareness of the revolutionary<br>impact of such tools. E-Mail, for example, levitates toward horizontal<br>rather than vertical communications. Such impacts are content<br>*independent*.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure if that changes anything significant about the provenance of the term, but an interesting blip on the radar. </div><div><br></div><div>Patrick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Ted Faber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:faber@isi.edu" target="_blank">faber@isi.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 07/24/2015 08:40, John Day wrote:<br>
> It does sound more like a term a journalist would create than an engineer, since to our minds it really isn’t *electronic*.<br>
<br>
</span>Yes. Mike would make that point with some frequency (and amplitude) as<br>
well.<br>
<br>
The media has these regular flirtations with single letter prefixes<br>
(e-mail, iPhone). Odd, but predictable. I'm kind of hoping that the<br>
next one is a kana or emojii.<br>
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