[ih] first use of "email" (redux)

Dave Crocker dhc2 at dcrocker.net
Tue Jun 4 08:23:32 PDT 2013


On 6/4/2013 3:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Apropos recent discussions of the "inventor of email"....
>
> Just came across this:
> http://public.oed.com/appeals/email/
>
> An appeal from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, seeking any
> use of the term earlier than 1979.


I've sent them a query, to find out their basis for citing 1979.

I also just search the msggroup and header-people archives for the 1970s 
and could not find an occurrence of "email" or "e-mail".  This surprised me.

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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