[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[jklensin at gmail.com (John Klensin)]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Russell <arussell at stevens.edu> wrote:
> No, we haven?t.  I (and several co-authors) made this exact point in:
>...
> ? and I?m sure I?m forgetting many more similar analyses by historians, published and not, by me and by others.
>
> I would like to think that journalists and their readers would understand (or at least try to understand) that a technology can be ?invented? or ?developed? by one community, but a popular name for that technology can be ?coined? by someone else; that priority in coinage is not necessarily causality in invention and usage (we don?t use ?email" *because* Shiva A called it that in the late 70s); and that invention and innovation are not the most significant or interesting aspects of technological and social change.  But you?ll forgive me for thinking that I?m fighting a losing battle along multiple fronts.

Sorry Andy.  I've read a few of those papers and others and obviously
agree.  I construed Jack's remark as more of a reminder to those of us
who tend to focused on the Internet about the importance of looking
more broadly when some of these questions come up rather than as a
criticism of the historical community and responded on that basis.
No disrespect or implication that you folks had not been doing your
jobs intended.

    john