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[ih] Invention of term 'email'
- Subject: [ih] Invention of term 'email'
- From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:05:22 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <CA+CiqoVRrKHZZd-PVv1oJ00ixE2L5VFXwt--u=o0fj7BAeEsZA@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
Craig Partridge wrote:
> 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... nice piece! Don't think I've seen it before.
And perhaps it illustrates what's most irksome about this whole brouhaha
with Shiva A. -- the folks who were REALLY involved in email know that
it has many contributors. Shiva, with cooperation from the press, is
pushing the lone inventor story, with a wronged inventor - plays well in
the media, but so far from the truth. Sigh...
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra