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[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?
- Subject: [ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?
- From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:46:29 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On 7/25/2015 4:45 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that "electronic mail" would have preceded "e-mail";
I used "electronic mail" in my Rand report of 1977:
Framework and Functions of the MS Personal Message System
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwj_8O-96YPHAhXQMogKHZ4TAgE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Frand%2Fpubs%2Freports%2F2007%2FR2134.pdf&ei=e5q6Vb_HMtDloASep4gI&usg=AFQjCNH4hVCaxq7FtERc_XnY-GYUiHvtbQ&sig2=cwBnZ_gX7SoIK189TiighA&bvm=bv.99261572,d.cGU&cad=rja
and I do not believe for one second it was first usage.
d/
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