E-mail: Today's Chosen Communication Tool

E-mailing has changed the way we communicate today. I know for me, that over the past year I have sent out more then twice as much Email’s then I have actual letters.

E-mail was created in 1965, for users of a mainframe computer to communicate among each other. Almost a year late in 1966, E-mail was extended to convey messages between many different users on separate computers. One computer network that has changed the way we send E-mails today was ARPANET. ARPANET which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was the first to create packet switching, which could use one link to communicate with more than one computer or network by putting data into “packets”.

The first major E-mail carrier was AOL. AOL kicked off around the year 1988 and was the first server to allow mass individuals to have an easy to use, communication system. Today, AOL has paved the way many other E-mail servers popped such as Yahoo, MSN, and G-mail.

E-mailing is quite simple. Servers like AOL, Yahoo, and G-mail have created a simple, easy to use system that allows even the most computer illiterate people to send E-mails with little difficulties as possible. Bellow is a diagram that shows the how the process of emailing actually works.

I believe that E-mail has changed our society in many ways. Lately our daily lives rely on the fast pace actions that technology has offered us. Anything that takes a couple of days to send is not tolerated anymore. We expect things to happen at a fast pace because we have gotten to rely on technology to help us through our everyday needs that in the past, may have taken longer to do. In this way email has drastically improved the fast pace lives we uphold for ourselves. People no longer have the patients to send mail through the postal service on a daily basis. E-mail has also given us a relatively cheaper way of sending information and letters. With email, many providers have offered free emailing, while postal service still requires you to pay for stamps to put on letters. E-mailing has also let us stay in contact with many people that we might have lost touch with in the past. It is much easier to get a persons E-mail then having to take down a whole street address and then sending a letter to them through the post office mail. E-mailing has changed the way we live and communicate today. No longer do we have to suffer through all the long and gruesome pains of communicating like people of the past did.

The only disadvantage that E-mail offers is that of personal touch that comes with sending a letter through the postal service. I know personally that when someone sends me a letter in the mail I get more excited than I do when someone sends me a letter in an E-mail. Sending a letter through the mail has a special personal touch that has been that way since early history. I believe that at this point no amount of communication technology can give you that feel of personal touch like a letter that has come from someone though the mail.

E-mail has been one of the greatest inventions that have come about since the creation of the Internet and World Wide Web. With E-mail people are able to send and receive messages fast and are able to stay in touch with a wider amount of people. Without E-mailing the world that we communicate with would be very different. E-mail is possibly one of the biggest inventions this world has seen so far. Everyday people are constantly checking their E-mail, not just once a day but every hour. Every business, school, or group communicates through E-mail. Today it is impractical to not have an E-mail account. Life has come to depend on it.