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Email/Email/Email.....

     Electronic mail,called e-mail was Started in the late 1960's by the armed forces of the United States of America.The army or military officers were looking for a way communications could be carried out in the event of a large-scale nuclear war.They needed a system that would be very decntralized,relible,and fast in case centralinstitutions were destroyed.They came up with e-mail.

In the early 1970's,e-mail was limited to the United States military, defense contractors and universities doing defense research.By the 1970's it had begum to spread more broadly within university communities. The early 1990's saw an explosion of the use of e-mail and other computer networking tools for a wide range of  Professional,academic,and personal purposes.Whereas a few thousand people were using e-mail in the 1980,it was estimated that in 2000,more than 25 million people thoughout the world were using it..

E-mail is a way of sedding a message from on computer to one or more computers around the world.First,you write down the e-mail address of the person you're sedding the massage to.Then you compose the massage,either by writing it directly in a special e-mail softwere. You psh button to issue a simple command to send the message. The computer System you're connected to will break the message up in to tiny pieces and send them electronically to the destination,usually over common telephone lines.The pieces might travel through different routes to various computers on the way. Then,usually within two tree minutes, the pieces will all arrive at their destination,where the receving computer will re-assemble them in to a message that can be read. the person receiving the massage can them log into his or her computer account at a convenient time and read the mail.

Today, in Sri Lanka, many professionals,especially those in urban areas, use e-mail.it's very useful and cheaper than making telephone calls.While overseas telephone calls are very expensive,e-mail messages can be sent to the same people at a fraction of the cost.Of course,both parties must have access to computers and telephones.The main problem with e-mail is that it's so dependent on telephone lines and electricity,that in developing countries like ours,it's not totaly reliable because you never know when the telephones will be out of order,or when there'll be a power cut.But as far as personal messages are concerned,e-mail is quicker and cheaper than methods such as the telephone or"Snail Mail"