[ih] Invention of term 'email'

[Dave Crocker]

For reference, the word 'invented' is getting bandied about quite a bit 
on this email history topic.  For the moment, I suggest ignoring its use 
and worrying more about the specific thing being asked.

      When did the term 'email' first get used?  So far, we have no 
solid data.

We have very early use of terms like "electronic mail" and "electronic 
messaging" but not of the contraction.

d/

On 6/13/2012 1:47 PM, SM wrote:
> Hi Noel,
> At 12:21 13-06-2012, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> where Chomsky is saying a student of his invented the term 'email' in
>> 1978. Dunno if this is accurate, but FWIW I checked my collection of
>> IENs and
>
> There was a discussion about the "invention" a few months ago ( see
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00152.html ).
> The discussion ended at
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-smtp/current/msg00071.html The
> "invention" is a copyright of a somputer program for electronic mail
> system called "EMAIL" (
> http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=Ayyadurai&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=FgMj1TMBIHWxOrn8bBBj7UbwOW7&SEQ=20120220122136&SID=1
> ).
>
> Regards,
> -sm

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  Dave Crocker
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