Over the last four decades a revolution has taken place, in which new ways of communication through the use of technological advancements. With the combination of little resources necessary email has sparked a new form of written communication that not only makes messaging easy, but also allows one to post and transmit messages to a large diverse group with no costs necessary. People have the capability of sending web-links, pictures, documents, and other forms of written composure without so much as lifting a pen. What is it that really makes email so special should not be the question on any one's mind, but how is it that email became to be and where does this direction of technology mean for possible future advancements?
Nowadays World Wide Web has a composite of many different email sites such as GOOGLE, YAHOO, and many more. Today, nearly all business and schools runtheir organizations on email. By facilitating an ethical, fast way to transmit messages, and important documents within the blink of an eye these corporations expanded their communication skills nearly 400 percent! What once took two days to a week to send a letter across the country now takes a matter of seconds.
But where did email really come from and how did development make it like it is today?
The first email system was designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1965 of a time sharing mainframe computer to communication (Email and Usenet, pg. 10). Email was first started as a file directory that was shared between network users in an office and it resembled more of a posted note more than a postal letter (Ray Tomlinson). Email wasn't exactly huge at its time of first use, but it was starting to become popular. More and more people wanted to contribute to email and make computers talk to each other. People would leave messages for others who were going to use that computer station next. The biggest problem of the electrical message was it only stayed on the one computer. Wouldn't it be exciting if someone were to get the message to another computer much like the postal service system.
Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Massachusetts, was the mastermind behind the sending of the first email from one computer to another. Through use of the "@" symbol from the computer keyboard you could send messages from one individual to another. Soon afterwards, electronic mail messages were being sent, read, forwarded, and responded too by others. By 1974 there were more than a hundreds of military users of email because ARPANET encouraged it.
Email has revolutionized modern day society and made it apart of our everyday lives. It has become so powerful that it has secluded and denominated the use of faxing and writing formal letters. Email is so widely used that, nowadays, people can send messages through cell phones or any computer that connects to the internet. It has become so user friendly we can access it anytime we want to, save them, and obtain them later on. When we watch a commercial or see an advertisement we see email address just below the main medium. We receive messages everyday from all around the world from friends and large corporations. It fascinates me on how far we came from transporting messages from horseback, to mailing letters in envelopes, to sending messages through cyberspace. I strongly support that because of Web 2.0 and advancements in face-to-face cyber-media, email is going to become more formal in professional document signings as well as scholarly programs. This technological era, in which email is in current use, isn't even remotely close to what the possible outcomes could be.
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