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    Advantages of E-Mail

                      E-mail has various advantages, some of them are:

                          An e-mail can be sent anytime and from anywhere in the world.

                         An e-mail can be sent to many people at a time.

                          An e-mail can be easily forwarded to anyone without typing it again.

                         Sending an e-mail is fast in comparison to traditional mails.

                      E-Mail Address

                      You need to have an electronic address to send and receive e-mails. This electronic
                      address is called e-mail address. The e-mail address is unique for each e-mail user.
                      Some examples of e-mail addresses are as follow:

                           orangeeducation123@gmail.com                            orangeeducation@yahoo.co.in

                                                                                      orangeeducation123@gmail.com
                      Although  these  e-mail  addresses  have  different
                                                                                             Username          Domain name
                      formats  depending  upon  the  type  of  network  but

                      always have same form— a username and a domain name  separated by @ (pronounced
                      as ‘at’) symbol. The portion before the at (@) symbol is called the username and
                      the later one is called domain name. The username is unique to every individual
                      sending or receiving e-mails. The domain name is common to all the individuals using
                      a particular server or network for sending or receiving e-mails.

                                The first person to send an e-mail across a network was Ray Tomlinson.

                            He used the “@” sign to separate the names of the user and th e domain name.

                      Creating an E-Mail Account

                      There are various websites that provide e-mail services free of cost. Some of them
                      are Gmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, Outlook, etc. You can create your e-mail account with
                      any of these service providers. The most common general purpose and free e-mail

                      service provider is Gmail.

                                        Imagine,  if  your  emails  could  be  delivered  by  virtual  birds  that  fly  across  the
                                        Internet. What kinds of birds would deliver different types of messages?

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