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A Quick Overview of Email
E-mail is short for Electronic Mail and has become a daily feature (some would say a nuisance) in our personal or work lives. We take it for granted today even though e-mail is one of the most significant advances in communications in human history. Imagine for just one second that e-mail was no longer available to you. Would you be able to cope?
E-mail came about as part of an American military project called Arpanet. The role of Arpanet US and NATO forces in the case of a nuclear attack. The method of communication had to have many branches so that if one part of it was attacked the other parts would still function. The expected nuclear war never came so Arpanet, which was designed for war, was not needed. However, the different branches of Arpanet criscrossed each other all over the world to form a web of computers. University Professors say the potential of a global communications network and the Internet was born. The military network that was spread all over the world is where we get the term World Wide Web :-)
The first e-mail
The first acknowledged e-mail was sent in 1976 as part of a university project. This single electronic message was the single most important step forward in human interaction since Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call.
How many e-mails are sent each day internationally?
Believe it or not approximately 28 billion (28,000,000,000) e-mails travel through the Internet each and every day. People tend to receive twice as many e-mails as they send on average. This is similar to other forms of written communication e.g. we tend to receive twice as many letters as we send.
The other unfortunate fact is that of those 18 billion e-mails that travel around the world each day a huge percentage (some estimate at least 20% or about 3 billion e-mails) are spam or junk mail. This staggering volume of garbage e-mail chokes up bandwidth that could be better used for legitimate business or personal purposes. Bandwidth wasted on spam costs approximately $8 billion dollars per year.This wasted money has prompted an industry to develop products designed to fight this - these are known as spam filters
E-mail Protocols
Learn how e-mail travels around the internet and then finally arrives on your PC.E-mail Acronyms
A list of useful acronyms that you can use online.
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