[ih] Invention of term 'email'

[Dave Crocker]

>    Oh, a Google Groups search produces a 19 May 1981 use of "EMAIL" in
>    the context of discussing CompuServe --
>    https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/fa.human-nets/1ZZF2m_S_zs


It strikes me that that message uses the word in a way that looks 
already-established.  That is, it doesn't look like someone coining a 
term and floating it for people's reactions.  Rather it looks like it's 
used as if it had been getting used for awhile.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
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