[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[Vint Cerf]

i haven't been a very good academic - very modest publication record...

I think I used "email" for a post office report but that was 1981.
Note that RFC 773 used "mail":

Comments on NCP/TCP Mail Service Transition Strategy

So I reluctantly imagine that the "email" or "e-mail" term may indeed have
come long after 1971's networked SNDMSG.

Maybe Dave Walden can check with Tom Haigh?

v


On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
> wrote:

> Ummm.... yes.  ;-)
>
> Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Vint used the term rather early on
> - in some talk or other - and that it can't be found.
>
> Funny, and illustrative story:  I've been quoting Vint's definition of
> infrastructure for years ("it's everywhere, you use it all the time, you
> only notice it when it breaks").  The thing is, he gave that definition
> at a workshop Richard Civille and I organized around 1994 - and it only
> made it into print in the 100 or so copies of the workshop handouts (and
> I seem to have misplaced my only copy).  Other than buried deep in
> archived files, on my personal server - probably in a now-unreadable
> format - I don't think that talk ever made it online.
>
> Miles
>
> Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> > Miles,
> >
> > you are aware that you just told Vint to look up his own stuff?
> >
> > ROTFL
> >
> > el
> >
> > On 2015-07-24 14:20, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >> Assuming that they're looking for a published reference, I expect
> >> that we're talking literature that predates stuff that's easily
> >> findable on the web - old journal articles, technical
> >> documentation, science fiction, maybe a transcript of talk by or
> >> interview with someone like Vannevar Bush, Licklider, or Doug
> >> Engelbart (maybe one of those Cerf or Kahn guys).
> >>
> > [...]
> >> Vint Cerf wrote:
> >>> Oxford English Dictionary looking for early usage of the term
> >>> "email"
> > [...]
> >
>
>
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