[ih] Invention of term 'email'

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Jun 18 17:14:38 PDT 2012


    > From: Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com>

    > 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

Right, but we already know pretty much all about that (some people here
actually did some of it). The question of 'where the term came from' is thus
really the only open question.

	Noel



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