The Evolution of The Worldwide Email System

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The Evolution of The Worldwide Email System The Evolution of The Worldwide Email System by Jimmy Oakley

Marketing through email has become a very popular way of marketing today and an effective way of communicating with your customers. With the advent of the Internet and new information technology, email marketing has risen to be one of the most effective and productive means of advertising successfully.

Email is short for electronic mail. The Wikipedia definition of Email is 'a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems'. The term 'e-mail' (as a noun or verb) applies to both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMPT) and the intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other.

The spelling of the term e-mail or email is disputed and will change from one field to the next. For example, 'e-mail (with the hyphen) is used primarily in the journalism field including such noted organizations as CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the BBC. On the other hand, the term 'email (without the hyphen is used by the general computer industry and is based on the technical roots of the term.

Email is one of the main reasons people use the Internet. Email actually predates the Internet and was a critical tool used in the creation of the Internet. The purpose of the 1965 development of email was to provide a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate with each other. Then, by late 1966, email evolved to allow what was known as network email which allowed users to pass messages between different computers. Back in the 1965-66 era, no one actually realized that electronic mail would become very useful and eventually be a focal point in worldwide communications, building relationships, both personal and business.

The next evolutionary step of email was the creation of the packet switching network. Development by the Department of Defense The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, otherwise known as ARPANET, was the predecessor to the global Internet. Packet Switching is now the primary basis for both data and voice communications worldwide. In essence, Packet Switching took the place of Circuit Switching, as in the old typical telephone circuit.

The main differences between the two are easily discernable. With Circuit Switching(old telephone circuit), a dedicated circuit was tied up for the duration of a call and communication was only possible with one single party on the other end of the circuit. Packet Switching could use one communication link to communicate with more then one machine by assembling data into packets. It was a major advancement that not only could the link be shared but each packet could also be routed independently of other packets.

The whole email system in use today is at the very peak of it's evolution and newer more powerful technologies and being developed as I write this article. Today's email systems allows people to communicate with each other any time of the day or night and to anyone anywhere in the world. I suppose next we will be emailing our friends who are vacationing on the moon.

Jimmy Oakley is an Internet Marketer that provides access to the most sought after Advanced Email marketing course available on the Interent. He invites you to visit his website at: http://www.buildyouremaillist.net and learn email marketing technologies and methodologies the right way the first time!

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