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[ih] Invention of term 'email'

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
>