Hello, A late follow-up on the discussion about the origins of “email”. I asked Louis Pouzin what word they used in Cyclades, the Arpanet-like network developed in France in the early 1970s. Quick answer (my translation): “I don’t remember precisely all our reveries of that time. I think we said ‘messageries’ [mailing]. It was not a priority. Perhaps toward 1973 someone installed some rather basic software in Cyclades, but we didn’ use it much. Until around 1980, in France, there was a variety of ‘messageries’, as each lab, computer centre or inspired hacker tended to develop one’s own. It was probably the arrival of Multics which forced an alignment on the Arpanet standard.” Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838 http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/CV-Mounier-Kuhn_1_.pdf