what is e-mail?

Answer 1

Electronic Mail, is like when you send a letter,but without to go to the post office, without stamps and is a lot faster.

Answer 2

Electronic mail (abbreviated "e-mail" or, more commonly, "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 both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other. Often these workgroup collaboration organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service.

E-mail predates the Internet; existing e-mail systems were a crucial tool in creating the Internet. The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was begun at MIT in 1961. [1] It allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 [2] from remote dial-up terminals, and to store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS.

E-mail was quickly extended to become network e-mail, allowing users to pass messages between different computers. The messages could be transferred between users on different computers by 1966, but it is possible the SAGE system had something similar some time before.

The ARPANET computer network made a large contribution to the evolution of e-mail. There is one report [1] which indicates experimental inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in 1969. Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the names of the user and their machine in 1971 [2]. The ARPANET significantly increased the popularity of e-mail, and it became the killer app of the ARPANET.

Answer 3

Electronic mail sent or received through the web ( Not spider web but world wide web or network of computers; just in case the next thing you post the question that what web is)

Answer 4

Electronic mail - send and recieved through the internet

Answer 5

Electronic mail you receive on your computer. Are you new to this planet??

Answer 6

an e maill is like sending a letter but you type it up on the computer.

Answer 7

a fastest service to reach yours, sendig pictures important documents and love letter's all and free and fastest.
what else you want !

Answer 8

messaging service