On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger <[email protected]> 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 > Clive P. Hohberger, PhD MBA > Managing Director > Clive Hohberger, LLC > +1 847 910 8794 > [email protected] >
