The numbers tend to become larger still, as the internet will be expanding. According to Mashable page, specializes in information about the digital age, in every day are created 144 800 million “emails”.
Today, in certain professions, 28 per cent of the working week is spent watching the “email”, though, all these messages, only 14 percent can be considered important. Unsolicited advertising, false messages, messages from friends and social network notifications, saying that someone said something, represent the rest.
According to the same source, in 2012 only 3300 were created millions of new accounts “email”, only a third of them for professional reasons.
It started less than half a century, October 29, 1969, when Leonard Kleinrock, a researcher at the University of California, sent the message “LO” to a colleague, Douglas Engelbart. Leonard wanted to write “LOGIN” but the system was down the middle.
In the following years, this new type of communication has developed and just two years later, in 1971, created the first programs to send “email” and also the “at” symbol (@). Until the 80s of last century, the technique was up perfeiçoando, began to be possible, for example, send a message to more than one recipient, organize and save messages, forwarding or replying automatically or attach files.
And by that time also came the so-called “spam” (the first unauthorized advertising contents and sent simultaneously to thousands of people email has been sent to May 1, 1978, the United States, reads the Web page. livinginternet.com), something that has not stopped growing since then.
Today the “email” replaces a lot of mail that was previously mailed. Has the advantage of not involve effort, be quick and virtually free, does not necessarily have to be answered and be brief and without formality, and that can be sent anytime and read at any time and (almost) anywhere.
Admittedly, it may also carry viruses. In 1999, the famous “melissa” that spread via “email” and caused damages of millions of euros. And the page “livinginternet” also leaves a piece of advice: never send a “email” when you are angry.
It’s just an angry person before I had to get a pen and paper, write a letter, put it in an envelope, seal it and go to the post office to send it. The irritation was time to move. Now an “email” full of irritation writes and sends them in seconds. And it can be saved, printed, forwarded and exposed permanently.
Details. Today is exchanged more “mail” messages and send them less letters. Official figures show that in the second quarter of this year, total traffic of postal services in Portugal decreased 7.3 percent, with orders being the only postal object traffic increase, compared to the first quarter.
And it is still the beginning. In a world with over seven billion people, are less than three thousand millions who have internet access, 39 percent of the population, it will have access to email.
Every day more scarce cards in mailboxes but there are more people access the Internet, to create an email address, to receive and send messages, whether personal or professional, you want to be a good Christmas or birthday, sending a curriculum, important information, an anecdote or a photograph.
Although the music and poetry speak of emails of love, but of love letters. Although ridiculous.
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