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Sender: Sally Bates Subject: ?Origins of the phrase Virtual Community
I'm interested in tracking down the origins of the phrase vitual
community. A friendly Yale library undertook a Nexis search for
me and could find nothing earlier than Rheingold. Rheingold thinks
he may have read it somewhere but isn't sure. In a paper that's
been submitted for publication in a meteorology journal, I've
attributed Rheingold with coining the phrase, but I'm uneasy about this.
Any help on tracking this down would be appreciated. I've appended
my correspondence with the Yale librarian
Sally Bates, Information Manager | sally@unidata.ucar.edu
UCAR/Unidata Program Center | Phone: (303) 497-8637
P.O. Box 3000 | FAX: (303) 497-8690
Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000 | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> The earliest use on Nexis is a Dec. 22, 1987 article by Howard Rheingold
> in _Whole Earth Review_, entitled "Virtual Communities: Exchanging Ideas
> through Computer Bulletin Boards."
How far back does Nexis go? Could the term have been used in the 1960s?
There were a lot of people then interested in the potential of
computer/communications networks. I think Rheingold mentions most of
them in his book.
(And I really appreciate the help on this! I didn't know
where to begin trying to answer the question of who used the term first!)
--Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19:08:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Fred Shapiro To: Sally Bates Subject: Re: ?Virtual Community
Nexis goes back to the mid-1970s. Lack of Nexis occurrences before 1987
is a pretty strong indication that it was not used in the 1960s. Also, I
don't think "virtual" in its current vogue usage (as in "virtual
reality") was around much before the mid-1980s, although it was used in
computer science in a more prosaic sense much before this
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I'm interested in tracking down the origins of the phrase vitual
community. A friendly Yale library undertook a Nexis search for
me and could find nothing earlier than Rheingold. Rheingold thinks
he may have read it somewhere but isn't sure. In a paper that's
been submitted for publication in a meteorology journal, I've
attributed Rheingold with coining the phrase, but I'm uneasy about this.
Any help on tracking this down would be appreciated. I've appended
my correspondence with the Yale librarian
Sally Bates, Information Manager | sally@unidata.ucar.edu
UCAR/Unidata Program Center | Phone: (303) 497-8637
P.O. Box 3000 | FAX: (303) 497-8690
Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000 | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
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On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> The earliest use on Nexis is a Dec. 22, 1987 article by Howard Rheingold
> in _Whole Earth Review_, entitled "Virtual Communities: Exchanging Ideas
> through Computer Bulletin Boards."
How far back does Nexis go? Could the term have been used in the 1960s?
There were a lot of people then interested in the potential of
computer/communications networks. I think Rheingold mentions most of
them in his book.
(And I really appreciate the help on this! I didn't know
where to begin trying to answer the question of who used the term first!)
--Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19:08:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Fred Shapiro To: Sally Bates Subject: Re: ?Virtual Community
Nexis goes back to the mid-1970s. Lack of Nexis occurrences before 1987
is a pretty strong indication that it was not used in the 1960s. Also, I
don't think "virtual" in its current vogue usage (as in "virtual
reality") was around much before the mid-1980s, although it was used in
computer science in a more prosaic sense much before this
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