Email noun earlier than 1979 Before email was email it was electronic mail. Although the shorter form is by far the more common name today, the full form electronic mail of course came first (otherwise how would anybody know what the ‘e’ meant?). It was only as people became more familiar with the system that they could shorten this to the snappier email. E- is now used in this way to form a plethora of technology words such as e-commerce and e-book, but email is where it all began. The OED currently has a first quotation for electronic mail in this sense from 1975; the shorter email is first attested four years later, in 1979. Although this doesn’t seem like a very large gap in time, it seems unlikely that the 1979 quotation represents the coinage of email, taken as it is from a professional journal: 1979 Electronics 7 June 63 (heading) Postal Service pushes ahead with E-mail.

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It seems probable that a computer whiz somewhere may have used email first. Perhaps earlier evidence lies in an internal company memo, a software manual, or even in an item of ‘electronic mail’? We’d like your help in finding such an example. Eye-fi Not Transferring Raw Files. Posted by OED_Editor on 25 October 2012 6.37 Comments. I suspect both of those are misdated and are in fact from 2008. Email as we know it dates from around the early eighties, any earlier use if the term will probably for some other generic/early electronic mail system.

Yahoo was founded in 1994. Dave Taylor says he has been in the computer industry since 1980 and was probably around 7-8 in 1969. Blogs come from around the late nineties. The “How can I see the “full headers” of my Yahoo email messages?” post appears to be from 2008: The Gulf Daily News was founded in 1978. The “Scam email warning by British Embassy” article also appears to be from 2008: •.