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[ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
Jack Haverty wrote:
>
> I suspect there's some fascinating history of electronic mail
> involving that E-COM proposal and why it never happened. Sounds like
> another case where the experimental system trounced the official
> one......later repeated by TCP, etc., etc.
>
> But I can't find anywhere either where they call it email. But I agree
> with Noel -- I think the term "email" came from outside our community.
> I vaguely recall first seeing it in something like a trade magazine or
> newspaper article.
>
The OECD "appeal" included this:
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The /OED/ currently has a first quotation for /electronic mail/ in this
sense from 1975; the shorter /email/ is first attested four years later,
in 1979. Although this doesn?t seem like a very large gap in time, it
seems unlikely that the 1979 quotation represents the coinage of
/email/, taken as it is from a professional journal:
//1979 /Electronics/ 7 June 63 (heading) Postal Service pushes ahead
with E-mail.
It seems probable that a computer whiz somewhere may have used /email
/first. Perhaps earlier evidence lies in an internal company memo, a
software manual, or even in an item of ?electronic mail?? We?d like your
help in finding such an example.
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