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[ih] Invention of term 'email'
- Subject: [ih] Invention of term 'email'
- From: craig at aland.bbn.com (Craig Partridge)
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:13:03 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CA+CiqoVRrKHZZd-PVv1oJ00ixE2L5VFXwt--u=o0fj7BAeEsZA@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <[email protected]> <CA+CiqoVRrKHZZd-PVv1oJ00ixE2L5VFXwt--u=o0fj7BAeEsZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Eric Gade wrote:
> Hi.
>
> 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, a topic on which Craig Partridge has written an excellent history for the transactions of the ACM (I think). Anyone have a link?
http://www.ir.bbn.com/~craig/email.pdf
Craig