For my EOTO presentation, I selected to conduct and present my research on Email. The email, in 1971, was invented and founded by Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson created the electric mail system on the ARPANET's system, "Advanced Research Projects Agency Network", which was utilized for academic and research purposes, as a techbed for networking technologies. This invention that was made by Ray Tomlinson instantly sparked communication between machines, which made it more convenient and practical to have immediate communication whenever, and wherever. Email started a boom within the communication world. Along with the basics of the email being invented, Tomlinson also was able to create the well know, "@" sign. With the "@" sign, the symbol gave the sender the opportunity to send certain messages, to a certain person. Instead of your email getting lost in a system, the user was able to directly "@" the user they wanted the message to directly be sent, and it was completed. This provided the technological world with an understanding of who their mail was being sent to, and who was sending them mail.
The main issue that was present, was related to the sending mail aspect. The main issue that was raised was "when sending a message from one computer to another within a network, how would one indicate where the message was intended to go?". The people that were recently exposed to this new era of communication were unsure of how to contact the users that they wanted to contact. As mentioned previously before, the "@" was the savior for that issue, in that the mail that was being sent was able to include a destination for the message, that was almost as simple as "Username@name of computer". By the year 1976, the @ sign was profoundly used, and the email world utilized the symbol and had a clear understanding of how to use it.
The email has had a major impact on how we communicate, day to day. The life of traditional mail is not as present anymore. The new way of sending mail digitally has officially changed how we communicate with one another. The way we pay bills and make payments is a much easier process when it's done through email, the traditional way of sending your bills is severely outdated. An email has made it a smoother process to make our payments in a matter of seconds. It is also quick and efficient, in the event you are in need to send a quick message to the person you want to contact, you are able to within a matter of minutes. In addition, email gives the opportunity to send messages that contain photos and videos. With that, some messages are necessary for imagery and can be transmitted through email. When having to operate with traditional, handwritten mail, those types of implementations were not able to be done. The email has brought a vast of different attributes to communication, by making it a quicker and faster process of communicating with one another and allowing us to directly send out messages to the specific person we wanted to get in contact with. Ray Tomlinson will go down in history for being an influential figure in the communication realm and has laid the foundation for his legacy to live on.
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