A PRESENTATION

ON
HISTORY OF E-MAIL

SUBMITTED BY:
AMIT KUMAR BISWAL (314SM1002)
KUSHAL DEY (314SM1005)
IRFANA HASHMI (314SM1008)
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WHAT IS E-MAIL?
E-mail is text-based mail sent via the computer
from one person to another.
E-mail is an ideal method for sending
documents already on your computer using
attachments.
E-mail is a way to communicate with people as
close as your office or as far away as the other
side of the world.
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SOME HISTORY...
During the 1960s and 1970s many companies in
the United States used email facilities on their
systems.

This enabled users of terminals attached to
those systems to send messages to each other.

That was even before the internet was invented!
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As companies began to connect their central systems
(hosts) to their head offices then employees were
able to send email to other employees on a world-
wide basis.

The internet just helped email become popular!

That was in the beginning of the 1990s when you
were not even born!
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HOW DOES EMAIL WORK?



Email travels via the Internet
from one computer to
another.

Computers known as mail
servers direct outgoing mail
and store incoming the mail.

Once email reaches your
mail server, it waits in an
electronic mail box, the
"Inbox for you to collect it.
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THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH EMAIL

Compose and Send: write an email and send it
to others.

Reply: reply to an email that you received.

Forward: pass on an email that you received to
others.

Attachment: You can send files with your email
such as: pictures, music, software and
documents


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KEY E-MAIL FEATURES
We have come to realize that we have in our
hands something very big, and possibly very
important. It is now plain to all of us that message
service over computer networks has enormous
potential for changing the way communication is
done in all sectors of our society.

E-mail is A Push Technology
E-mail Waits for You
E-mail is One-to-Many
Email is almost Free

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E-MAIL AND KMS
Email is the simplest and one of the most effective
technologies for sharing knowledge at a distance.
Threaded discussions on in-house email systems or
on the Internet are a great way for a community of
practice to raise questions and exchange solutions.
About 35 percent of the business information used
in day-to-day business is stored in e-mail messaging
systems.
The knowledge value of E-mail

Hidden Knowledge Assets
Access to E-mail Archives is Problematic

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An E-Mail Address Consists Of 3
parts:


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jackandjill@gmail.com
Unique User Name
chosen by the email
account owner
At
sign
Domain Name
company/organization
providing the email service
SENDING MESS GES
Email users create and send messages from
individual computers using commercial programs:






To send the message, the user has to specify the
addresses. Messages to more than one recipient
are called broadcasting.


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The email address needs to be followed by the
symbol @ (means at), followed by the domain,
the organization's name, and finally the country.

yourname@yahoo.com.br
USER
ORGANISATION
COUNTRY
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TWO WAYS TO GET EMAIL

1. Provided by your Internet Service Provider
Monthly fee for internet connection often includes
email service.
Aliant - ...@sympatico.ca
Eastlink - @eastlink.ca

2. Free Web-Based Service Providers
Advertising on the site pays for the service.
Gmail - @gmail.com
Hotmail - @hotmail.com
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TWO WAYS PEOPLE CHECK EMAIL

1. Web-Based Email
Login to a web site
Messages stay on the mail server
Can be accessed from any computer with internet
connection

2. Using Email Software
Open and login to your email software application
(e.g. Outlook)
The application retrieves your messages from the
mail server and saves them to your computers
hard drive

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THE FUTURE OF E-MAIL
Spam, business e-mail, and personal e-mails
all increase.

Spam-require the right mixture of legislation
and spam-fighting technology.

The state of e-mail clients-all of clients could
stand improvement.
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CONCLUSION
Email is the most effective and powerful
technology for knowledge management.

Until better tools appear, we have to
learn how to use todays tools.


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REFERENCES
Email. Wikipedia. Retrieved Sep 11, 2005, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
Get Started with Email. Retrieved Sep 11, 2005, from
http://email.about.com/od/getstartedwithemail/
Handling Email Overload. Retrieved Sep 11, 2005, from
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/01/011008j.cfm
The history of email. Retrieved Sep 11, 2005, from
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/e
mail.html
Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload. Retrieved Sep 11, 2005,
from
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/tools/print_item.jhtml?id=4438&t=globali
zatio


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