[ih] Invention of term 'email'

[Eric Gade]

Coming from someone who wasn't alive at the time, I think it's a quite
natural thing to shorten these kinds of terms in colloquial English. For
example, basketball phenom Dwayne Wade is affectionately referred to as
D-Wade. So I can imagine (much like someone suggested earlier) that there
were multiple instances of the term being coined.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu> wrote:

> Noel,
>  I agree.  If you'd asked me, I'd have said I'd been using email since the
> mid-70s (grad school days at CMU-CS), but it might have taken several years
> for the term to develop.
>        -- Guy
>
>
> On 6/18/12 7:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>>     >  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
>>
>>


-- 
Eric
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