The History of Email
Email is the biggest evolutionary advance in communication in modern history. Ever since the internet first started, the way we communicate with each other changed. Instead of sitting down and writing a letter with pen and paper, we type it on the computer and send it via the internet and the receiver sees it when they sign online. Instead of calling someone on the phone, we can talk to them directly online via instant messaging, as if we were on the phone. But there are problems with emailing and instant messaging such as junk email and kids using the shortcuts they use online in their school papers.
The internet started 30 years ago as a tool for the U.S. military as a way to communicate if there was a nuclear attack. Now you can do just about anything online, find answers to any questions you might have about a certain topic, purchase goods, and even communicate. "Email is convenient, saves time, brings us closer to one another, and helps us manage our ever-more-complex lives." Leonard, A. (2000). We've Got Mail-Always (Pg.240, 4). In L. Behrens and L. J. Rosen Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (9th Ed), 2005 (Pg. 240-244). Email is much more popular than traditional mail, and is seems that the only traditional mail you get are bills. But you can pay those bills online.
Another popular aspect of online communication is instant messaging, being able to talk directly to your friends online as if you were talking on the phone.
Emails have been dominating in the communication methods that are available. Traditional mailing of physical documents is no longer practiced with big organization. Every business mailing is going Electronic. Electronic mails use the WWW to transfer messages, documents a...
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...opened up face to face direct communication from different parts of the world thanks to the helps of video conferencing.
Technology is changing everyday and we have more to come and more to see and more to learn.
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The ability to send electronic mail influenced American society in a variety of ways. Unlike the telephone, email made communication less personal, but more convenient. Both parties could now send and receive information whenever they desired. There was no longer a need for expensive, long distance phone calls to communicate with people around the world. It nearly supplanted postal mail. Email shrank the world even further; instantaneous worldwide communication became both simple and inexpensive.
The decision to monitor e-mail is left to the organization that provides the e-mail service to users. These organizations can range from educational institutions and private corporations, to governments and non-profit organizations. Each of these different types of organizations has a different agenda and goals, not only in general, but also for their members-and more specifically, for their members' e-mail. While educational institutions can provide e-mail facilities to their constituents for the purposes of convenience, employers almost always maintain e-mail facilities for the sole purpose of improving the on-the-job productivity of their employees.
I’m a busy person, and don’t have time for face-to-face communication with my friends and family, and I definitely don’t have the time to write and mail a letter. Email is an excellent alternative to face-to-face meetings, phone calls, and letters. I can describe important details of my day to people who mean the most to me, or I can update a classmate on upcoming assignments.
New technologies are allowing us to do things faster, easier, and more efficiently than ever before. Almost every new innovation in technology improves the speed and productivity of any task at hand. Electronic mail (E-mail) is possibly one of the greatest things to happen to the world. Despite this, there are people who find difficulties in using either E-mail or conventional mail. To help decide whether to use E-mail or the United States postal Service, a comparison of each one’s speed, ease of use, reliability, and cost is a helping factor.
People can "talk" to others by sending email messages, at the speed of pressing the send key. This information is instantly transmitted to the receiver, who can in turn, reply quickly. Today, one can even literally talk to someone else, just as if he/she were actually phoning someone over traditional phone lines. While the quality is not as clear as regular lines, the cost is considerably less.
Traditional letters, circulars, handouts, posters are going to shut because of the use of internet gave birth to e-mails. At n...
Today’s mailing system is faster and more convenient than it was during the revolutionary time period through the Civil War. With today’s advanced technology, more people choose to instant message and email each other rather than sending letters in the mail. Because of this, we have changed the way people communicate as a society and as a whole. Mail today is fast, convenient, and simple to use. The way we use mail to communicate today is vastly improving much like it was before the 1870s.
Email is quite possibly the most important computer application ever created. Even the most primitive of computer systems comes with access to email. The most novice computer users know how to send and receive email and the slowest Internet provider will get a user to an email server. As the first major computer application, email is a huge part of daily life, communicating between students and teachers, doctors and patients. It can travel across offices, cities, countries, even over oceans. As the inventor of email, Raymond Tomlinson has significantly affected life for all those living in the 20th and 21st centuries and therefore should be remembered and written about just as much as any other major inventor in past history.
One of the strengths of electronic communications media is that it costs virtually nothing to send a message. These media are not free of charge: setting up a cellular telephone network or an Internet e-mail service has substantial overhead costs in equipment and connectivity. However, once these costs are paid for, the cost to transmit a message to a single recipient is minuscule when compared with older media such as postal mail. Electronic messaging is cheap and fast. It is also easy to automate: computer programs can send out millions of messages via e-mail, instant message (IM), or Usenet netnews in minutes or hours at nearly no labor cost.
Angell, David, and Brent Heslop. The Elements of E-Mail Style: Communication Effectively Via Electronic Mail. Canada: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.
Throughout history, developments in technology and communications have gone hand-in-hand in society’s advancement. However, the most significant impact of technology is in the communication department, because the spread internet has made sending emails, chatting, paying bills and finding a date affordable and quick. People can use Facebook, Skype, Yahoo or Gmail to communicate efficiently and instantly to their friends and loved one’s for no cost at all if they choose to.
Communication is important in life. Companies need to communicate with other companies and customers. The managers also need to communicate with the staff. The technology provides us with many means of communication, the most important of which is e-mail.
the Internet, any two people anywhere can communicate for free, whether it is with text or voice. Video conferencing tools are becoming readily available to the public. New uses are being found for the Internet every day.
Although electronic mail has gotten more people than ever to read and write some don’t agree with the impersonal quality of e-mail. Of twenty-five people surveyed twenty-three had electronic mail addresses and they all agreed that they had been communicating much more since they discovered e-mail. Electronic mail is not only preferred over handwriting these days but lots of people are also giving up the telephone for e-mail. It is ...
Electronic Mail, a means of communication that is growing at a very rapid rate. In this paper, I will write about introduction of e-mail, the advantage and disadvantage of e-mail, mailing lists, sending an e-mail message, sending attachments, e-mail improvement, and security features. Introduction of Electronic Mail Electronic mail (E-mail) has become popular and easy way of communication in this decade. E-mail is a method of sending and receiving document or message from one person to another. E-mail is not only replacement for postal mail and telephones, and also it is a new medium. E-mail send plain text, images, audio, spreadsheets, computer programs can attach to an e-mail message. Using the e-mail, you must have a computer on a network. The computer must require a modem and phone line. Sending and receiving e-mail needs an e-mail program. Every e-mail user requires an e-mail address. This e-mail address is similar to a postal address. E-mail address is written as username@domain, for instance, PCLEE@juno.com. The username is used for sending and receiving e-mail.