as most libraries bind their old magazines, requiring the cutting of the article from the bound book if a thief were to sell the article. Intel ultimately awarded the prize to David Clark, an engineer living in Surrey, England who had decades of old issues of Electronics stored under his floorboards. First use of E-mail as an abbreviation The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites the first usage of the abbreviation E-mail in the June 1979 edition: “Postal Service pushes ahead with E-mail”. The headline was in reference to the United States Postal Service initiative called E-COM, which was developed in the late 1970s and operated in the early 1980s. No earlier usage has been found; although, the first usage of the term email may be lost. CompuServe rebranded its electronic mail service as EMAIL in April 1981, which popularized the term. References External links Business magazines published in the United States Defunct magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1930 Magazines disestablished in 1995 Science and technology magazines published in the United States Professional and trade magazines Monthly magazines published in the United States