subscription wall (1996), pay wall (1997)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
[...]
>
> * paywall
>
> 2004 _alt.rec.geocaching_ (Usenet newsgroup) 31 Aug. Some time ago the
> website wanted to go commercial. The caches hidden would be behind a
> paywall though placed by volouteers (typo).
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rec.geocaching/msg/10d2ce9979eee1d5
>
> 2004 _Independent_ 22 Nov. 20 (Factiva) It's a clever way to monitor
> the zeitgeist. Stories more than a week old fall behind a "paywall"
> (you have to pay to read them), so if a story really matters, best to
> make a copy on your hard drive.

I see now Chris Waigl posted some other 2004 cites for "paywall" here:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0511A&L=ADS-L&P=R1208


--Ben Zimmer

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