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:
- 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.
- 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, please indicate your number when registering mobile phone, 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.
- 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, everyone is beautiful and short names have been busy for a long time (they even sell such “beautiful” boxes online!), but with some effort you can come up with something original and easy to remember, for example: 77box@, doctor77@, freemen@, infomehanik@ :-).
- Email password It has important 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 in this in simple form do not leave a password, complicate it by adding capital letters, several characters and numbers: “ Puss!in!Boots10"- in English it will look like this: « Rjn!d!fgjuf)
