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[ih] Invention of term 'email'
- Subject: [ih] Invention of term 'email'
- From: dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:16:12 +0100
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> Earliest use of "E-mail" I can find is from Tommy Ericson of QZCOM on
> 24 May 1985.
Not quite that old, but the earliest use of anything like email that I
found in the RFC series is RFC 977, which quotes a USENET message dated 25
September 1985 from Man Wong <honman at unitek.uucp> who signs off "Please
reply by E-mail. Thanks in advance."
Tony.
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