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[ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
On 6/6/2013 8:01 AM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>
> The OED may be interested in hearing that, with all the august oldtimers
> on this list, none have (yet) recalled or found a pre-1979 use of the
> term "e-mail". That in itself is an interesting data point.
well, ummm...
Ayyurday's system was written in 1978. If I recall the code segments
I've seen, it did use the string "EMAIL". A reasonable guess would be
that this was due to the professor who commissioned his summer work,
rather than his own creation.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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