The Revolution Behind @
“You Got Mail!,” Whereas in the past, sending a letter to a colleague in other country might take weeks or even months, today by using electronic mail or e-mail, a process of composing, storing, sending, and receiving mail over an electronic communication system, it only takes a click in seconds to get one’s message across to one’s coworkers no matter where they are. Not just a popular application of the Internet, e-mail, in fact, has played a crucial role in the revolution of the Internet nowadays.
Email was not an invention at first but a development out of the APRANET or “Advance Research Project Agency”, the first largest network of computer created by the U.S. Department of Defense, which later led to the development of Internet (Heinz Tschabitscher, 2006). Furthermore, the idea of email actually started during as a mode of communication among various users on the same computer at different times by two simple programs called SNDMSG (send message) and READMAIL, during 1965s when “time-sharing” on the large mainframe computers was a common practice (Ivan Peter, 2004).
Shortly in the early of 1970s, email began to develop into “networking e-mail” permitting users on different computers to exchange message, which later highlighted a need for files transferring between computers in the APRANET and for a new addressing code to identify the sender and receiver of the message (Wikipedia, 2006). This, in reality, had created the first APRANET email application by Raymond Tomlinson in 1971 with the birth of CYPNET to copy files over the network and with the inclusion of “@” sign to separate the users from the host names - “user@hostname”, which had set up the standard for email addressing nowadays (Dave Crocker, 2006). Indeed, an example of the first email program in the public was “Eudora” written by Steve Doner at the University of Illinois in 1988 as seen in the picture below.
Thus, how email really works? Similarly to most of the Internet data, email messages are often first broken down by TCP or Transmission Control Protocol on the Internet into packets, which are later delivered by the IP or Internet Protocol to an appropriate location. Finally, the IP will reconstruct the message so the recipient can read (Gralla, 2006, pg. 89) as seen in below picture. In addition to text, pictures, videos, and sounds can also be attached to one’s email messages with the provision of standard decoding and encoding schemes on the Internet like MIME and uuencode that most of the email software programs today contain. Besides the basic utilities like checking, composing, sending, forwarding, and deleting, now email also provides a vast array of new software including automatic track keeping of new recipient to the address book, signatures design, mailing lists set up, vacation auto-reply, and spam controller. Two great advantages of email are cost and speed, but two major problems regarding email these days are security from hackers and in particular, spam flood from unsolicited commercials emails, unwanted emails, and stolen financial information through “phishing” (Gralla, 2006, p. 103).
The development of email has actually enriches the use of Internet today making it a essential tool of information exchange for not only personal but also business communication in today’s globalize marketplace. A great instance is an email-based system information sharing system, where people from different parts of a community participate to share information through exchanging email message. Actually, studies have shown that the two key benefits offered by this program are the spur of creativeness in the contact among specialists from different communities and the flexibility in response to dynamic changes of alliance partner anywhere in the world (Tabata, Kuniaki, Mitsumori, and Sadamichi, 1991).
Moreover, in my opinion, the birth of email has actually set the mark for the development of communication on the Internet through its conceptualization of “message exchange.” Especially, email has also opened up new venue for various expansion of online communication such as newsgroup, instant messaging, and blogging. Newsgroup is a public discussion forum where people around the world participate to discuss in specific areas of interest. On the other hand, instant messaging is a live chat that allows people to communicate immediately in the absence of time, space, and cost. Finally, blogging, a new gate of social networking, enables people to not only create their own identity but also make their voice heard in online community. Although these internet technologies vary in their features but they share an important purpose with email: a medium for exchange of information, ideas, and resources in a virtual society.
References
David Crocker. (2007). Email History. Retrieved 21:45, January 25, 2006 from http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm
Email. (2007, January 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, January 25, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Origins_of_e-mail
Gralla, Preston. (2006). How Email Works. How The Internet Works – 8th Edition. Pp. 89 -131. U.S. Que Publishing.
Heinz Tschabitscher. (2007). The First Email Message. The About Inc. Retrieved 21:22, January 24, from http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm
History of Internet. (2006, August 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, January 23, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Internet&oldid=70771572
Ian Peter. (2004). The History of Email. Retrieved 20:05, January 24, 2006 from http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html
Tabata, Kuniaki, Mitsumori, & Sadamichi. (1999). Information Knowledge Systems Management, 13891995, Vol. 1, Issue 3. Retrieved 19:45, January 26, from http://web.ebscohost.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/bsi/detail?vid=9&hid=104&sid=658db7c2-a8f3-492f-a182-bc7bf8b42d69%40sessionmgr109
“You Got Mail!,” Whereas in the past, sending a letter to a colleague in other country might take weeks or even months, today by using electronic mail or e-mail, a process of composing, storing, sending, and receiving mail over an electronic communication system, it only takes a click in seconds to get one’s message across to one’s coworkers no matter where they are. Not just a popular application of the Internet, e-mail, in fact, has played a crucial role in the revolution of the Internet nowadays.
Email was not an invention at first but a development out of the APRANET or “Advance Research Project Agency”, the first largest network of computer created by the U.S. Department of Defense, which later led to the development of Internet (Heinz Tschabitscher, 2006). Furthermore, the idea of email actually started during as a mode of communication among various users on the same computer at different times by two simple programs called SNDMSG (send message) and READMAIL, during 1965s when “time-sharing” on the large mainframe computers was a common practice (Ivan Peter, 2004).
Shortly in the early of 1970s, email began to develop into “networking e-mail” permitting users on different computers to exchange message, which later highlighted a need for files transferring between computers in the APRANET and for a new addressing code to identify the sender and receiver of the message (Wikipedia, 2006). This, in reality, had created the first APRANET email application by Raymond Tomlinson in 1971 with the birth of CYPNET to copy files over the network and with the inclusion of “@” sign to separate the users from the host names - “user@hostname”, which had set up the standard for email addressing nowadays (Dave Crocker, 2006). Indeed, an example of the first email program in the public was “Eudora” written by Steve Doner at the University of Illinois in 1988 as seen in the picture below.
Thus, how email really works? Similarly to most of the Internet data, email messages are often first broken down by TCP or Transmission Control Protocol on the Internet into packets, which are later delivered by the IP or Internet Protocol to an appropriate location. Finally, the IP will reconstruct the message so the recipient can read (Gralla, 2006, pg. 89) as seen in below picture. In addition to text, pictures, videos, and sounds can also be attached to one’s email messages with the provision of standard decoding and encoding schemes on the Internet like MIME and uuencode that most of the email software programs today contain. Besides the basic utilities like checking, composing, sending, forwarding, and deleting, now email also provides a vast array of new software including automatic track keeping of new recipient to the address book, signatures design, mailing lists set up, vacation auto-reply, and spam controller. Two great advantages of email are cost and speed, but two major problems regarding email these days are security from hackers and in particular, spam flood from unsolicited commercials emails, unwanted emails, and stolen financial information through “phishing” (Gralla, 2006, p. 103).
The development of email has actually enriches the use of Internet today making it a essential tool of information exchange for not only personal but also business communication in today’s globalize marketplace. A great instance is an email-based system information sharing system, where people from different parts of a community participate to share information through exchanging email message. Actually, studies have shown that the two key benefits offered by this program are the spur of creativeness in the contact among specialists from different communities and the flexibility in response to dynamic changes of alliance partner anywhere in the world (Tabata, Kuniaki, Mitsumori, and Sadamichi, 1991).
Moreover, in my opinion, the birth of email has actually set the mark for the development of communication on the Internet through its conceptualization of “message exchange.” Especially, email has also opened up new venue for various expansion of online communication such as newsgroup, instant messaging, and blogging. Newsgroup is a public discussion forum where people around the world participate to discuss in specific areas of interest. On the other hand, instant messaging is a live chat that allows people to communicate immediately in the absence of time, space, and cost. Finally, blogging, a new gate of social networking, enables people to not only create their own identity but also make their voice heard in online community. Although these internet technologies vary in their features but they share an important purpose with email: a medium for exchange of information, ideas, and resources in a virtual society.
References
David Crocker. (2007). Email History. Retrieved 21:45, January 25, 2006 from http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm
Email. (2007, January 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, January 25, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Origins_of_e-mail
Gralla, Preston. (2006). How Email Works. How The Internet Works – 8th Edition. Pp. 89 -131. U.S. Que Publishing.
Heinz Tschabitscher. (2007). The First Email Message. The About Inc. Retrieved 21:22, January 24, from http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm
History of Internet. (2006, August 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, January 23, 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Internet&oldid=70771572
Ian Peter. (2004). The History of Email. Retrieved 20:05, January 24, 2006 from http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html
Tabata, Kuniaki, Mitsumori, & Sadamichi. (1999). Information Knowledge Systems Management, 13891995, Vol. 1, Issue 3. Retrieved 19:45, January 26, from http://web.ebscohost.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/bsi/detail?vid=9&hid=104&sid=658db7c2-a8f3-492f-a182-bc7bf8b42d69%40sessionmgr109
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Hello Ha, good range of references for your piece on email.
Just note that where you use Wikipedia, there is a proper way to do the in-text citations as seen in this guide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia#Examples
I'm giving you the full grade for this, but take note of my recommendations for future assignments.
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