<div dir="ltr">i haven't been a very good academic - very modest publication record...<div><br></div><div>I think I used "email" for a post office report but that was 1981. </div><div>Note that RFC 773 used "mail":</div><div><br></div><div>
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Service Transition Strategy</span> <br></div><div><br></div><div>So I reluctantly imagine that the "email" or "e-mail" term may indeed have come long after 1971's networked SNDMSG.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe Dave Walden can check with Tom Haigh?</div><div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Miles Fidelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" target="_blank">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ummm.... yes. ;-)<br>
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Vint used the term rather early on<br>
- in some talk or other - and that it can't be found.<br>
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Funny, and illustrative story: I've been quoting Vint's definition of<br>
infrastructure for years ("it's everywhere, you use it all the time, you<br>
only notice it when it breaks"). The thing is, he gave that definition<br>
at a workshop Richard Civille and I organized around 1994 - and it only<br>
made it into print in the 100 or so copies of the workshop handouts (and<br>
I seem to have misplaced my only copy). Other than buried deep in<br>
archived files, on my personal server - probably in a now-unreadable<br>
format - I don't think that talk ever made it online.<br>
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Miles<br>
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Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:<br>
> Miles,<br>
><br>
> you are aware that you just told Vint to look up his own stuff?<br>
><br>
> ROTFL<br>
><br>
> el<br>
><br>
> On 2015-07-24 14:20, Miles Fidelman wrote:<br>
>> Assuming that they're looking for a published reference, I expect<br>
>> that we're talking literature that predates stuff that's easily<br>
>> findable on the web - old journal articles, technical<br>
>> documentation, science fiction, maybe a transcript of talk by or<br>
>> interview with someone like Vannevar Bush, Licklider, or Doug<br>
>> Engelbart (maybe one of those Cerf or Kahn guys).<br>
>><br>
> [...]<br>
>> Vint Cerf wrote:<br>
>>> Oxford English Dictionary looking for early usage of the term<br>
>>> "email"<br>
> [...]<br>
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