Today - we can check "mail" by the minute! And at least for the adults, very often there may be a wariness as opposed to anticipation as we sort through what may or may not be pertinent information. There may be much unwanted "junk" mail - ads and even "trojan viruses" waiting to sneak harmful code into your hard drive!
WOW! How times have changed!
But from the first message of "lo" from UCLA to Stanford University Institute in 1969, to the height and breadth of the World Wide Web has greatly expanded. Even the speed of change has changed. It took another 8 years to connect a just third network to the UCLA and Stanford project with ARPANET.
IMAP, POP3, SMTP and HTTP - ?!?
Bottom line - It's ALL Protocol
Bottom line - It's ALL Protocol
Now - we not only can access electronic mail via a POP (Post Office Protocol) downloading mail directly to our computer, we also have the option of using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which allows access via the Internet from ANY computer. All these various foreign sounding abbreviations are just different ways of delivery - some use multiple paths in getting your e-mail "there and back again"...
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| From Pingdom Website: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/09/29/email-vs- snail-mail-infographic/ |
And for some statistics comparing the electronic mail to the U.S. Postal Service. It is interesting to note that MOST e-mail - a whopping 81% is JUNK!
But e-mail out numbers Snail Mail 81 to 1. So, in reality, 2.7 trillion e-mails are "legit" compared to 93.8 billion is STILL 28.98 e-mails to 1 letter.
And some of the added benefits of e-mail:
But e-mail out numbers Snail Mail 81 to 1. So, in reality, 2.7 trillion e-mails are "legit" compared to 93.8 billion is STILL 28.98 e-mails to 1 letter.
And some of the added benefits of e-mail:
- It's almost instantaneous
- You can create, send, receive & read when it's convenient to you
- you can send one message to multiple people without any extra work
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