e-dress (was Lenape ...)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:36:43 -0800, FRITZ JUENGLING
<juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:

>e-dress has been around for years-- I remember using it at least as long
>ago as '97.

The earliest appearance of "e-dress" in Google's Usenet archive is from
1987: <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=272@uvicctr.UUCP>.

Based on the number of hits on Google Groups (including some false
matches), it looks like usage peaked in 1998:

1993: 27
1994: 40
1995: 158
1996: 415
1997: 1,150
1998: 4,780
1999: 4,720
2000: 2,810
2001: 2,420
2002: 3,930
2003: 2,700
2004: 747

(Since the Usenet posting volume supposedly doubles annually, the decline
in usage since 1998 is even more precipitous than those figures indicate.)


--Ben Zimmer