No good deed goes unpunished
I have recently learned that if you type “origin snail mail” into Google, my name is associated with the number one hit.
You may wonder how I’ve come to know such an odd fact. Well, I’ve been contacted by some fellow who is claiming that he came up with the word “before there was an Internet.” In 1990. (I have internet code that’s older than that and I’m no great shakes.)
I’m not worried about this whack-O, of course. I’ll just send him off with a hearty shove. I’m just worried about more in the woodwork.
Sigh.
If anyone out there would like to write a nice long essay on the origin of the phrase “snail mail,” I’d be delighted to Google bomb it for you …