what is email? and amazing facts about email that you should know

Questions You should know about the meaning and amazing facts of Email

Hello Friends, Here you will get some interesting facts and history of Email. It became part of our life. Let us start with the first question.

What is E-mail? And what is the difference between Gmail and E-mail?

The full form of E-mail is Electronic mail. In simple words sending or sharing messages through an electronic medium. 

If we talk about E-mail and G-mail or we say Yahoo mail all are almost the same thing the difference is that Gmail (Google Mail)and Yahoo mail are denoting the companies providing service of Electronic mail.

WHY E-mail is a part of my life ? or How email becomes a part of our life?

As we all know that today without email id or contact number you can’t access many online websites (don’t worry here you can access) like social media examples twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and many more or online purchasing websites like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, etc.

Today, we need an email id to contact websites and business firms(on this website too!! But you can comment below  ). Today many companies use electronic mail for marketing their product, also known as Email-marketing. Not only this electronic mail now becomes part of computer study in lower and bigger classes.

What is the difference between E-mail, E-mail id, and email address?

Email-id and email addresses are similar things.

Email-id or address defines the user and every user has his/her own unique email-id. You need an email-id before using an electronic mail service like sending or sharing an email to another email id.

When was the email invented? and When was the First E-mail sent?

Email invented in the year 1971. By ray Tomlinson who was working in ARPANET. 

On 8th June 1971, ray Tomlinson has sent the first electronic mail.

The fact is that in the first Electronic mail Ray Tomlinson did not have sent any wishes like good morning or any other good information. The text was the first line of the keyboard that is ‘QWERTYUIOP’. 

What is the mean of @ sign in email-id?

Ray Tomlinson chose @ sign to denote the Electronic service company in the E-mail address or id. (like yourname123@companyname)

Facts about E-mail

• 90% of email users save their password either 123456 or their personal mobile number. This is not good but it is the truth.
• Today there are 3.9 billion active users of E-mail which is more than 50% of the global population.
• In 1991, the first email from space sent from space to earth. By the crew member of STS_43 Atlantis by using the apple (a famous it company) software.