Ended Smoktech giveaway! 250 Cloud Machines to win...

[RaceGun59]

Just because it's out there to read..

vape before vaping
You may be surprised to learn that the word vaping existed before the phenomenon. Although e-cigarettes weren’t commercially available until the 21st century, a 1983 article in New Society entitled ‘Why do People Smoke?’ contains the first known usage of the term. The author, Rob Stepney, described what was then a hypothetical device:

“an inhaler or ‘non-combustible’ cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but…delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour. (The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as vaping.)”

- See more at: The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is... vape | OUPblog

 

[FringeChief68]

Yahoo, Web Crawler, portal pages like Excite, or, (shudder)...AOL.

https://www.webcrawler.com/ I remember that

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

Just found another one in the new members thread.

Smok email winners known to date:

@VapeBritain
@jpbavaro
@Rob Cason
@John Shalin Arricivita
@Nokosa
@boggy18
@OBEYbryant
@hyds
@Dunder Mifflin
@jander541
@luxury
@Jaysen B. VIF coming soon
@Jessejames224
@elpsycongroo
@milo walker
@amagos
@LowVoltSparky
@VapingSam
Congrats again!

 

[BamaBabe4Ever]

@Sir2fyablyNutz every time i see the bold tag on the bottom of your post this song ALWAYS runs through my head. Thanks

 

[RaceGun59]

@FringeChief68
surfing the web

CERN
Erwise
ViolaWWW
Midas and Samba
Mosaic
Cello!
NetScape

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

@Sir2fyablyNutz every time i see the bold tag on the bottom of your post this song ALWAYS runs through my head. Thanks

They play that song at the end of every WVU home football game. It's like our unofficial state song.

 

[FringeChief68]

@FringeChief68
surfing the web

CERN
Erwise
ViolaWWW
Midas and Samba
Mosaic
Cello!
NetScape

Oh Yea I was a Big NetScape user too

 

[TikPandora]

Oh Yea I was a Big NetScape user too

I was too young to use anything before Google. I was like...four in 1997. lol

 

[FringeChief68]

I remember that this was the post to Beat, which showed a Post from Dec. 18, 2007 from SmokeyJoe

@SmokeyJoe

Usenet and forums
Vape as in a vaporizer can be found at least as early as 1998, probably much earlier. Unsurprisingly, it's much more recent when referring to relatively new e-cigarettes. Here's an April 24, 2008 post on e-cigarette-forum.com:

"Vaping" is just a fancy way to avoid the term "smoking", since smoking is illegal everywhere and these things don't burn anything and don't produce second-hand smoke.

The earliest I found on this forum is from the forum founder pondering in an early post on December 18, 2007:

Well it's not smoking....So what is it?

"E-smoking" is a bit of a handful, "Misting" sounds far too fey, "Vaporizing" or "Vaping" has drug connotations.

There must be a better word for my new hobby! Suggestions?

A few months later, someone else was happy to use vape in a March 2, 2008 post:

I have received both my Sedansa and Njoy ciggies. I would say they are pretty much identical in both appearance and usage. I can interchange the filter cartridges as well as the batteries between the two. They vape about the same. I can drip in both cigs, whether into the atomizer or into the filter. I really like them both.

The e-cig minicig from .......... sucks -- and I don't mean literally. I can't get anything out of them. I don't like their pipe either. It vapes plenty; you just can't inhale and exhale much of anything. I am sending back the pipes and minicigs to ........... I have now ordered ..........'s regular e-cigarette. Hopefully that is more like the Sedansa and the Njoy cigs.

And the same user later that day:

How about you? How are you doing with your ratio smoking/vaping? Are you dripping?

It's now been accepted by the online e-cig community. On the top of every page is a current appeal to vaping Europeans and Americans (along with a safety recall for a device called SLB Vapros V1):

slang - Etymology of 'vape' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

 

[crxess]

Best TFV4 Review so far

 

[Jessejames224]

I know Smokey said they'd post the winners of the 250 here, but is the giveaway still going on? (I have people in my local group asking). The sign up links still work and everything. And smoktech didn't have an end date on their website. I already got an email yesterday, but idk what to tell other people. Lol.

Just say from what you understand the winners have been contacted

Second grade was the hardest six years of my life and they didn't teach me about cell phone auto-correct

Spell Check Was A Dictionary

 

[FringeChief68]

I was too young to use anything before Google. I was like...four in 1997. lol

I got underwear that's older then you

 

[Jessejames224]

I got underwear that's older then you

I was 13 lol

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

Best TFV4 Review so far

I watched that one full screen, that chick has vape game.

 

[mac63]

I got underwear that's older then you

As long as the skidmarks ain't that old you're ok.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

As long as the skidmarks ain't that old you're ok.

Jack Nicholson - The Bucket List "At my age never trust a fart"

 

[jseah]

Best TFV4 Review so far

What is the fascination that vapers have with baseball caps???????

 

[FringeChief68]

What is the fascination that vapers have with baseball caps???????

You put them on when other people are going to see you, and you didn't brush your hair yet

 

[FringeChief68]

Seleya did find something not from ECF from 5/9/07, but not sure if it's going to count

@SmokeyJoe

5/9/2007

$200 Electronic Cigarette Helps Kick the Habit

"However, im almost positive you have to purchase nicotine cartriges. If this thing coup vape tobacco like a reusable Eclipse cigarette, then i think i'd buy it."

 

[BamaBabe4Ever]

Best TFV4 Review so far

Hey how did you get a video of me

 

[crxess]

What is the fascination that vapers have with baseball caps???????

Cap?



Oh.............see it now ............LMAO