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If you don't really know what email is or how to create one, then you've probably only recently started discovering the Internet for yourself. There is nothing wrong with this - there is a first time for everything. This article will help you understand the terms and something else.

E-mail (short for electronic mail) is a technology that allows you to send and receive electronic messages on the Internet. The most interesting thing is that e-mail, according to the principle of its operation, is not much different from regular mail itself. It even uses all the same terms. And yet, e-mail has one significant advantage - letters are delivered almost instantly. Minus - no one can guarantee 100% delivery of letters.

It is believed that e-mail appeared back in 1965 - then, based on the CTSS operating system, the MAIL application was created, which made it possible to send letters within the same computer. Then it became possible to send letters to another machine. E-mail in its familiar form most likely appeared in 1996, when the Hotmail mail service was opened. One of the first mail services in Russia was, apparently, Mail.ru - it was launched in 1998.

Registration email

I described in some detail the registration process on several popular services:, and. In general, I can say that registration, as a rule, takes only a few minutes of your free time. The main thing is to come up with a suitable login and a complex password to be sure of the security of your data.

It is recommended to use a reputable email service. Why? Firstly, the service will always be available (force majeure situations happen to everyone, don’t forget about them), secondly, you get the opportunity to communicate with the support service, which will help you figure it out if problems arise, thirdly, no one an unknown email service with hundreds of users can disappear into oblivion at any moment along with all your letters. As you can see, the pros and cons are obvious.

After registration, you can set up an email client on your PC, which will allow you to see and read absolutely all the letters that come to you by e-mail and do not need to use the web interface.

Email address

I would also like to tell you a little about the mail address. It consists of two parts. So, the first part is the nickname that you come up with yourself. Since most of the nicknames are already taken, you will have to come up with something tricky. For example, you won’t be able to use nicknames like privet or andrey, since they were registered several years ago (they say that beautiful postal addresses can be bought for a certain amount of money, but I personally have not seen such advertisements).

The second part is the domain name with a dog symbol (@) prefix. Typically, services have one domain (for example, @yandex.ru), while others have several (the same mail.ru allows you to use @inbox.ru, @list.ru, etc.).

Using email

In most cases, e-mail is used by ordinary users to write and receive letters. Very often e-mail is used for work. Well, some use email (as it is sometimes called) to send spam. I told you what it is in .

If you have questions, ask.

Oddly enough, in the 21st computer century we still cannot do without mail, or rather, without email. Every newcomer, when getting acquainted with the global Internet, is faced with the task of creating and registering his own free mailbox, since without his Email he will not be able to register in any social network or various services, and besides, using the email mailbox it is convenient to send messages anywhere Sveta. From this article you can learn: what email is, how to register a mailbox, which email service to choose for your email address, and many more interesting and useful things.

Email - what is it?

Email is a technology that allows you to transmit messages, pictures, videos and music files at a distance to other Internet participants (in English this is: electronicmail, abbreviated - e-mail oremail). In other words, e-mail is an analogue of regular “paper” mail, but only on the international Internet. The following concepts are also used here: letter, send, receive, attachment, signature, address. In everyday life, people usually say “electronic”, “soap”, “box”, “email”.

If you think that email is a fairly young creation, I hasten to surprise you - it is already more than half a century old! According to the most recent data, the appearance of e-mail is 1965 - it was then that Noel Morris and Tom Van Vleck (employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed the program « mail", with the help of which it became possible to transmit messages between workstations connected to one large computer:

After the advent of the global domain name system (DNS), domain names were used for communication, for example: box@ infomechanics.ru, it was then that the so-called “dog” appeared - @ .

And finally, in the mid-90s of the twentieth century, mass email services appeared:

• 1996 – Hotmail launched;
• 1997 – Yahoo! mail;
• 1998 – Russian service Mail.ru;
• 2000 – Yandex Mail;
• 2004 – Gmail Google.

The advantages of email include: ease of remembering the email address, which usually looks like this: mailbox_name@service_domain; another plus is the ability to send any information: text, files, images, audio, video, programs, etc.; independence of postal services; reliability and speed of mail delivery.

Among the disadvantages, it should be noted such a phenomenon as SPAM– mass mailing of advertising information without the consent of the owner of the mailbox; Like regular mail, email is also prone to delays in the delivery of letters; and the last minus is the limitation on the size of the sent attachment; usually it should not exceed 10 GB.

Yahoo.com(Yahoo Mail) is a mail service from the oldest search engine “Yahoo!”, quite popular in the West, but not very widespread in our country. There is a Russian interface. Can be used for secondary purposes. Register here: Yahoo.com

How to register an email - I share secrets

If you have read this far, then the issue of choosing a mail service (see above) has been resolved for you. The registration process for all mailers is basically the same and has been described many times on the Internet, so I won’t repeat this. I’d rather share with you some secrets that few newbies know about:

1. You can register as many mailboxes as you like on different services (Gmail, YandexMail, MailRu, etc.). There are no restrictions on the number of email addresses for one person.
2. To create an email, you don’t have to provide a phone number; you can do without it, then when registering you will be asked to enter a “secret” question, the answer to which only you know. Advice: If you are concerned about the safety of the contents of your mailbox, indicate your mobile phone number when registering, this will protect your mail from hacking by 99%. If you already have an email account, you can also link your phone number to it; this option is now available in most email services.
3. Choosing name for your email do not create too long and complex, they are difficult to remember, here are examples of such “stupid” addresses: as.petrov_otdelserv@, alina1988.menedjer@, kri987456321@ - apparently people have difficulty with imagination... Of course, all the beautiful and short names have long been taken (in networks even sell such “beautiful” boxes!), but with some effort you can come up with something original and easy to remember, for example: 77box@, doctor77@, freemen@, infomehanik@ :-).
4. Email password It is important that the more complex it is, the more difficult it will be for burglars to pick it up. But there is a flip side to the coin - the longer the password, the more difficult it is to remember. Therefore, I recommend making passwords 10-15 characters long and writing them down separately somewhere in a notebook. You can, of course, store passwords in a browser or in special programs, but this is less secure. Include letters, numbers, and symbols in your password. Sharing a trick– to make it easier to remember the password, type it in Russian words, but in the English keyboard layout, for example, your password "Puss in Boots" in English layout it will look like this: « rjndcfgjuf[». But don’t leave the password in such a simple form, complicate it by adding capital letters, several characters and numbers: “ Puss!in!Boots10"- in English it will look like this: « Rjn!d!fgjuf)