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<h2 id="intels-hunt-for-moores-original-article">Intel's hunt for Moore's original article</h2> <p>On April 11, 2005, Intel posted a US$10,000 reward for an original, pristine copy of the <i>Electronics Magazine</i> where Moore's article was first published. The hunt was started in part because Moore lost his personal copy after loaning it out. Intel asked a favor of Silicon Valley neighbor and auction website <a href="/facts/EBay/bDswVAKB">eBay</a>, having a notice posted on the website. Intel's spokesman explained, "We're kind of hopeful that it will start a bit of a scavenger hunt for the engineering community of Silicon Valley, and hopefully somebody has it tucked away in a box in the corner of their garage. We think it's an important piece of history, and we'd love to have an original copy."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>It soon became apparent to librarians that their copies of the article were in danger of being stolen, so many libraries (including <a href="/facts/Duke_University/BFMHVjsB">Duke University</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill/Wrd3mBWz">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>) located and secured the articles. The <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign/gusw7HoS">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a> was not so lucky, however, as the day after Intel announced the reward, they found that one of the two copies they owned was missing.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Intel has stated that they will only purchase library copies of the article from the libraries themselves, and that it would be easy to determine as most libraries <a href="/facts/Book_binding/H3F36uH8">bind</a> their old magazines, requiring the cutting of the article from the bound book if a thief were to sell the article.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Intel ultimately awarded the prize to David Clark, an engineer living in <a href="/facts/Surrey/xTGvM5Vk">Surrey</a>, <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a> who had decades of old issues of <i>Electronics</i> stored under his floorboards.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="first-use-of-e-mail-as-an-abbreviation">First use of E-mail as an abbreviation</h2> <p>The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites the first usage of the abbreviation <i><a href="/facts/Email/6pD9GLtI">E-mail</a></i> in the June 1979 edition: “Postal Service pushes ahead with E-mail”.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The headline was in reference to the <a href="/facts/United_States_Postal_Service/1Je8qAHF">United States Postal Service</a> initiative called <a href="/facts/E-COM/Afc4VbBf">E-COM</a>, which was developed in the late 1970s and operated in the early 1980s.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> No earlier usage has been found, and the first usage of the term email may be irretrievably lost.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/CompuServe/Pjpdcf2a">CompuServe</a> rebranded its electronic mail service as <i>EMAIL</i> in April 1981, which popularized the term.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> Media related to Electronics (magazine) at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><i><a href="https://archive.org/search?query=sim_pubid%3A26+">Electronics</a></i> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Introducing: The New, Biweekly Electronics". Electronics. May 1992. p. 22. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Sale By McGraw-Hill". The New York Times. March 22, 1988. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/22/business/sale-by-mcgraw-hill.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/22/business/sale-by-mcgraw-hill.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"History of Penton Media, Inc". FundingUniverse. <a href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/penton-media-inc-history/" target="_blank">http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/penton-media-inc-history/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Intel Offers Reward for Original Moore's Law Text". Reuters. Archived from the original on April 12, 2005. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050412090544/https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type%3DtechnologyNews%26storyID%3D8148789" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050412090544/https://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type%3DtechnologyNews%26storyID%3D8148789</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Kanellos, Michael (September 5, 2005). "Librarians furious at Intel over Moore's Law bounty". WebWatch. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on September 5, 2005. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050905230417/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129574,00.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050905230417/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129574,00.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"N.C. universities guard 1965 magazine with $10,000 bounty". NC News Wire. Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 24, 2005. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050824034043/http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2332707p-8710798c.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050824034043/http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2332707p-8710798c.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Moore's Law original issue found". BBC News. April 22, 2005. Retrieved April 10, 2009. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4472549.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4472549.stm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Appeals: email". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on April 6, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2022. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230406100025/https://public.oed.com/appeals/email/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230406100025/https://public.oed.com/appeals/email/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"email noun earlier than 1979". Oxford English Dictionary. October 25, 2012. Archived from the original on April 6, 2023. Retrieved May 14, 2020. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230406100025/https://public.oed.com/appeals/email/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230406100025/https://public.oed.com/appeals/email/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Ohlheiser, Abby (July 28, 2015). "Why the first use of the word 'e-mail' may be lost forever". Washington Post. Retrieved May 14, 2020. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/28/why-the-first-use-of-the-word-e-mail-may-be-lost-forever/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/28/why-the-first-use-of-the-word-e-mail-may-be-lost-forever/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Ohlheiser, Abby (July 28, 2015). "Why the first use of the word 'e-mail' may be lost forever". Washington Post. Retrieved May 14, 2020. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/28/why-the-first-use-of-the-word-e-mail-may-be-lost-forever/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/28/why-the-first-use-of-the-word-e-mail-may-be-lost-forever/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Haigh, Thomas (August 4, 2015). "Did V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai Invent Email?". thaigh's blog. Special Interest Group on Computers, Information & Society (SIGCIS). Retrieved September 5, 2020. <a href="https://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai" target="_blank">https://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Masnick, Mike (May 22, 2019). "Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email". Techdirt. Retrieved September 5, 2020. <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190518/23370542236/laying-out-all-evidence-shiva-ayyadurai-did-not-invent-email.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190518/23370542236/laying-out-all-evidence-shiva-ayyadurai-did-not-invent-email.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>