MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Snail-reading on paper, could we call it that?

ardeegee · 11-21-2009, 10:18 AM

BTW, for those curious about "snail mail" or "snailmail", it doesn't start showing up on Usenet until 1992:

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=b&sitesearch=

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=b&sitesearch=

"Snail mail" has a few isolated mentions in print media (at least, the subset of print media indexed by Google) in the 1980s, and even ones as early as the 1950s

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...nav=od&btnG=Go

The compound word "snailmail" has isolated print media instances as early as the nineteen teens, but, like "snail mail," doesn't seem to have gained popularity until the 1990s:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...nav=od&btnG=Go

11-21-2009, 10:18 AM	#27
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	BTW, for those curious about "snail mail" or "snailmail", it doesn't start showing up on Usenet until 1992: http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=b&sitesearch= http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=b&sitesearch= "Snail mail" has a few isolated mentions in print media (at least, the subset of print media indexed by Google) in the 1980s, and even ones as early as the 1950s http://news.google.com/archivesearch...nav=od&btnG=Go The compound word "snailmail" has isolated print media instances as early as the nineteen teens, but, like "snail mail," doesn't seem to have gained popularity until the 1990s: http://news.google.com/archivesearch...nav=od&btnG=Go