EMAIL

=e-mail (n) A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers. = =e-mail (n) A message or messages sent or received by an electronic mail system. = =e-mail (n) To send (a message) by an electronic mail system. =  Email is a way of communicating with others using digital messages sent by a computer.
 * __[[image:email.jpg align="left"]]The History of Email [[image:email7.jpg align="right"]] __**
 * By Ms Evans **  

E-mail systems are based on a **store-and-forward** model in which the e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users. Computer users then connect to the e-mail server, with a network-enabled device (e.g., a personal computer, laptop) for the time that it takes for the message to be sent(submission) or read (retrieved). Ray Tomlinson was born in 1941 in Amsterdam, New York. Ray worked as a engineer and a computer programmer, and is believed to have sent the first email in 1969. The first email Tomlinson sent was a test e-mail. He had developed a whole email system by 1971. Originally, emails could only be sent from one computer to another. Now, emails can be sent to any number of computers all over the world. Electronic mail came before the Internet was even thought of. It was an important tool in creating the Internet. Originally, emails could only be sent from one computer to another. Now, emails can be sent to any number of computers all over the world. Email has long been the most widely used //**__ Internet __**// application. For some people, it is also their most frequent form of communication. Email is also the technology underlying **//mailing lists//.** An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message //header//, and the message //body//, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including the **sender’s** email address and one or more **recipient** addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user's device to another's. Nowadays this is rarely the case. One user can send an email to a number or a group of receivers. Email began as an experiment by the military to be able to send to and from the battlefield. Thus was born email or electronic-mail Over the years the email has evolved with many different programs put with it and many people working to improve the email systems.
 * __What does it look like?__**
 * Electronic mail **, often abbreviated as **email** or **e-mail**, is a method of exchanging digital messages.
 * __ Who invented the eMail and why? __**
 * __ What is eMail used for? [[image:email8.jpg align="right"]] __**
 * __How has eMail changed? __**
 * An email TIMELINE **
 * 1961 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ) first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) The CTSS allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 (a computer) from remote dial-up terminals. Users could also store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1965 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> E-mail started as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. The original email systems allowed communication only between users who logged into the one host or "mainframe", but this could be hundreds or thousands of users within a company or university.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1966 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(or earlier) the SAGE ( ** Semi-Automatic Ground Environment ** ) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">system had was developed. This allowed email between different companies as long as they ran compatible operating systems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1969 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Ray Tomlinson sent the first email
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1971 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the "**@**" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one computer to another. The two machines were placed next to each other.
 * 1972 ** The first email was sent in 1972 using two machines by an engineer named Ray Tomlinson. Later he wrote an electronic mail program. The mail program was written in two parts (1)to send messages, you would use one part of the program called SNDMSG; (2)to receive mail, you would use the other part called READMAIL.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">early 1980s **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> networked personal computers on LANs ( ** local area network) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> became very important - and server-based systems were developed. This allowed communication only between users logged into the one server, but these also could generally be linked between different companies as long as they ran the same email system and (proprietary) protocol (rules) The first important email standard was called SMTP (or simple message transfer protocol). This SMTP system is still used today.
 * In 1993 **, the large network service providers America Online and Delphi started to connect their email systems to the Internet, beginning the large scale adoption of Internet email as a global standard.
 * More recently ** Emails can now be sent with attachments including : pictures, documents, powerpoints, music and small video files.

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