Great question. As discussed recently on this list, the OED dates "E-mail" to 1979, and the term became commonplace (among relevant user groups) some time in the early 80s. The first parallel formation which the OED notes is "E-Fit" (computer-enabled photofit), which it first finds in 1988. Then a succession of extensions mostly related to electronic publishing: 1990 Database (Weston, Connecticut) Dec. 7/2 Please do not hesitate to send any e-texts you might find to the Gutenberg listserver address. 1991 Academic & Libr. Computing (Nexis) Nov. 5 Things are still in an infancy. Almost all e-journals have started only since 1990. 1993 Wired Feb. 112/1 Chaos Control stands out among e-mags because about 80 percent of its articles are readable, thoughtful criticisms. 1994 Amer. Scientist Oct. 417/1 The archive of e-prints at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 1995 Computer Weekly 13 Apr. 41/3 Starting with a modest conversion rate of 10 books a year in 1991,‥the project hopes that by the year 2001 it will have a library of some 10,000 E-texts. 1997 Chicago Rev. (Electronic ed.) 22 Sept., Given the fluid, evolving nature of the Internet, many e-publications are inventing new formats that transcend traditional categories of print publications. 1998 SoftBase (Electronic ed.) 30 May, There are e-journals on the Web that are as authoritative as print journals. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Mar. 7/1 An e-dissertation could contain virtually unlimited appendices and databases. 2000 Personal Computer World Nov. 266/1 Though edocuments are the future, we still love to pass around little pieces of paper, so printing will be with us for a while. Conceptually broader uses are first noted a little later: 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Dec. b9/4 [He] has ambitious plans to make the telephone an electronic gateway for consumers. ‘We call it the E-door.’ 1998 Wired Feb. 145/3 Some exiles have used email to spam the island's digerati with political diatribes.‥ The only effect these e-commandoes have is to put the recipients at risk of losing their jobs. 1999 Campaign 2 July 2/1 Wild and wacky stuff like the outpost.com, Hollywood video and Seattle Sonics is relatively peripheral, rare gems (if you think Outpost a gem) among the sea of car sector mediocrity and e-dross. 2000 W. Holden in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 197 She hadn't imagined e-flirting to be the equivalent of grand-master chess. 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 20 Feb. (Seven Days section) 7/1 As society fractures into information haves and have-nots those who are not hotwired for progress will be left helpless, as jobs and success follow those with good e-credentials. 2001 Vanity Fair Mar. 128 Can e-art triumph where e-furniture failed? Doesn't get us to the more programmatic social uses, but hope this is of some help... Best James On 06/03/2012 14:48, Taylor-Smith, Ella wrote:
Hi I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this question has been asked before.
Does anyone know when and where terms like eGovernment, eDemocracy and ePetitions came about? Or e-government, e-democracy and e-petitions, as they were 10 years ago.
I'm particularly interested in the term eParticipation, but it's clear that it derived from eDemocracy etc (or it certainly seemed to, in my experience of its appearance)
Thanks for your help -Ella
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