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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: j g cordes who wrote (16153)2/1/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: j g cordes  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Please help... I believe I coined the term "Zippergate." It was on this thread with this post to Carol:

exchange2000.com
followed by exchange2000.com

It started from a reply to Christine on Jan 21, 1998 at 11:39PM as follows: "Christine... the Zipper Presidency. I'm counting on you..."

then I modified it to Zippergate per the above url's and made a point in explicitly using the word to refer to the scandal since then on many threads.

When I went on the world web.. there are no uses of the term that pre-date my use here. Indeed most begin the day after.

There are a surprizing number of sites sporting the term Zippergate, one even sells T-Shirts, another sells itself as a clearinghouse of jokes and commentary.

No newspaper articles that I've been able to find pre-date my creating the term here. What's the point...

One, I think many many many people cruise SI for ideas for investing and for discussion and use elsewhere.. its a seedbed for providing discussion and inquiry elsewhere.. how many places, who knows?

Second, I'm facinated, if my claim is true, at how fast a concept that fits can spread and be adopted into common use. The internet in this case is the vehicle of new word transport, not a bold headline in a newspaper. Just an interesting process and perhaps a claim to fame.

This is part of my question... if anyone can find an earlier dated use please post it here to my attention. thanks.

Jim
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