Re: First known use of the word, "email" (1978)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger <cph13_at_case.edu> wrote:
>
> You might want to look at Wikipedia entry "E-mail". There was a formal
> timeshare messaging system:
> 1978 – EMAIL at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey[36]
>

This is Shiva Ayyadurai's program written in 1978.

> It's very likely that the the term was simultaneously invented in multiple
> places, as deriving "e-mail" in any of its various forms is an obvious
> acronym for "electronic mail".
>

So far, no one before Shiva has used "email" in networked electronic mail
system.

> BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from
> William Safire's "On Language" column in the NY Times newspaper: He made
the
> analogy with "T-shirt".
>

Acc. to OED, Electonics magazine used the term "E-mail" in 1979.
http://public.oed.com/appeals/email/

N. Ganesan

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