[ih] Invention of term 'email'

[Tony Finch]

Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> Earliest use of "E-mail" I can find is from Tommy Ericson of QZCOM on
> 24 May 1985.

Not quite that old, but the earliest use of anything like email that I
found in the RFC series is RFC 977, which quotes a USENET message dated 25
September 1985 from Man Wong <honman at unitek.uucp> who signs off "Please
reply by E-mail.  Thanks in advance."

Tony.
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