[ih] "email"-- an opportunity.

• Subject: [ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
• From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
• Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:46:56 -0400
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Jack Haverty wrote:
> I'm not so sure that a techie would necessarily have coined the term 
> "email".  I can't recall any other such 70s construction -- "e-file", 
> or "e-message" or "e-typewriter" or whatever.    Does anybody else?  
> Everything we did was "E-" so it would have been redundant.  Even 
> today, what other e-things are there...?

I recall that the MIT PDP-1 had a different "e word"  - as in "expensive 
typewriter" and "expensive desk calculator" - don't remember anybody 
shortening it to "e-"

Miles Fidelman



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    • From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
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    • From: jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)
  • [ih] "email"-- an opportunity.
    • From: jack at 3kitty.org (Jack Haverty)

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