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Email is similar to personal letters, only a lot faster. Email is used to send messages via your computer to friends and acquaintances around the world. Requires a computer, email software, an email account through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a modem. Technically, email (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication.
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Electronic Mail or e-mail (culturally written as "email") is the process of sending computer code directly to another user in telecommunication. A concept derived from hand-written messages on paper and delivered by a messenger service, email is the digital delivery of a specific message directly to another person.
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Most email messages usually contain text, but you can also send non-text files, such as graphic images and sound files as attachments. Email accounts for a large percentage of the total traffic over the Internet. An email address is easily identified by the '@' symbol, for instance webmaster@pathfindersonline.org, making identification of the domain it's attached to much easier - in this case pathfindersonline.org
Latest revision as of 02:04, 3 June 2026
Electronic Mail or e-mail (culturally written as "email") is the process of sending computer code directly to another user in telecommunication. A concept derived from hand-written messages on paper and delivered by a messenger service, email is the digital delivery of a specific message directly to another person.
