Email has become one of the most commonly used communication methods in the world. It has made it possible to send messages to multiple people at different times in different locations. It provides the ability to view and respond to messages when it is most convenient. The creation of the email has improved how people communicate and has led to more advancements. Its unplanned development has drastically changed the Internet. Before the implementation of email, messages could not be sent from computer to computer. Users were limited to sending messages electronically on one machine. In order to send a message between different machines, the only other capability that existed allowed messages to be sent if the sender knew the password to the recipient’s computer and if the sender had an account on the recipient’s computer (Barlas). It would require a person to set up an account on other computer. The problem lies when a recipient is at another location or there are multiple recipients. It was not a realistic system. While Ray Tomlinson was working for BBN known today as BBN Technologies he discovered a solution to this problem. After graduating from Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Ray Tomlinson began to work for Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1967. At the time, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman had a government contract to work on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet (Cavender). Tomlinson was assigned to help develop the TENEX operating system, which had the ability to support a large virtual memory size. While working on the project in 1971, Tomlinson received a proposal about sending messages between computers where the message was sent to a numbered mailbox and the recipient could read the message... ... middle of paper ... ...14. Butler, Kelley M. “Email Celebrates 40th Birthday: Is it Getting Better With Age?” Employee Benefit News 25.10 (2011): 17. Business Source Complete. Web. 11 February. 2014. Campbell, Todd. "The First Email Message." The First Email Message. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2014. Cavender, Sasha. “Ray Tomlinson.” Forbes 162.7 (1998): 126-127. Business Source Complete. Web. 15 Feb. 2014. Goldman, Lea, et al. “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda. (Cover Story).” Forbes 176.7 (2005): 118. Business Source Complete. Web. 15 Feb. 2014. Haigh, Thomas. "Did V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai Invent Email?" Sigcis.org. Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, and Society, Oct. 2013. Web. 15 Feb. 2014. "Internet Hall of Fame." Official Biography: Raymond Tomlinson. Internet Society, 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. Raz, Guy. "The Man Who Made You Put Away Your Pen." NPR. NPR, 15 Nov. 2009. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.
Today the internet serves as a major source of communication in several different ways. When thinking about communication
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Email is a popular way to communicate online. With ever-growing technology online communication is only becoming more popular among people today. The question that remains is what impact does email have on our communication? Email has different impacts depending on if it is for professional or personal use. Email as a form of communication for professional use is positive, while impact for personal use is fairly negative. Overall the impact of email on interpersonal communication has positive and negative effects that can affect each other.
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.
E-mail is commonplace today, but it has only come into its own in the business community within the last 10 years. Not so with UNIX users, who have been enjoying e-mail for several decades.
telegraph to the telephone. It was less than 50 years later that the first computer was being
Why was the message that was sent to me in all caps? Is that a way of showing anger? Many get emails or texts or any forms of messages through electronic communication and have no idea what the message is saying or how their tone of voice is. Many have kids who just started using communication or haven’t started at all, and are wondering what to teach their kids about communication. The best solution to this problem is to teach using face to face communication. In the old days, talking face to face was the way to go. They would walk or drive somewhere and meet up just to have a conversation. Now a day we rely on electronics. Even though sending emails is easy, talking face to face helps understand people in a more formal manner. Are these digital connections as meaningful as the old fashioned face-to-face kind?
The user base of the Internet and World Wide Web grows by millions of users each year. In recent years this has created an explosion in the number of Internet email accounts and addresses. Companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Netscape have made free email accounts available for the world to use. Many people have multiple email accounts on the web, in addition to those that they may have for business purposes.
“Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day.” (http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html)
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.
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The Internet enables communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks that include 1.7 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the use of ordinary telephone wires. Users are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are many reasons why the Internet is important these reasons include: The net adapts to damage and error, data travels at 2/3 the speed of light on copper and fiber, the internet provides the same functionality to everyone, the net is the fastest growing technology ever, the net promotes freedom of speech, the net is digital, and can correct errors. Connecting to the Internet cost the taxpayer little or nothing, since each node was independent, and had to handle its own financing and its own technical requirements.
A popular way that people share information is E-mail. The first E-mail was sent in 1971. It was sent between two computers, that were sitting beside each other in the same room, and said “qwertyuiop” (Arandilla, 2011). While the meaning of this message has been lost over time, E-mail has become increasingly popular throughout the years. G-mail, an online email site created by Google, has over 45 million accounts.
Email (electronic mail) was one of the biggest breakthroughs in communication when the internet was commercialized. With email, it became possible to send messages and letters across the world in a matter of seconds to the recipients address. Email was used as an alternative to conventional mail or snail' mail, as the term was introduced to describe its speed. As technology improved, it became possible to attach' documents, photographs and even sound clips or songs to emails which made mail by post redundant. Emails used packet switching software whereby the email was broken down into packets' and sent via the internet to the recipient.