Chapter Four - the beginning of email

Created this Voki character but for some reason the code only showed the picture and did not permit a playback ??  Thankfully I have Jing.

I can still remember when email evolved in our organization during the late 1990’s. Once email was implemented, communication among our selves was instant. Email was a new and exciting format to enhance our business communication needs. It was also a quick way to get immediate response and documents from our colleagues. In order for the organization to provide email capability for their employees various hardware equipment such as servers and computers needed to be installed at each employee’s workstation. A company was setting up their own private maintained computer network that the company authorized their user group or as called the “Intranet”. Fiscally, for a business during the 1990’s this was a very costly initiative for them by needing to purchase computers for every employee. Also developed were personal email accounts that were by paid subscriptions to various providers such as Prodigy and AOL. Once a person created their own personal or professional email accounts certain etiquettes were designed to follow such as what and how you wrote an email, make sure it is appropriate, the right addresses are included and to be aware that many things written in an email can give wrong perception to reader. Whether received and sent, emails can also be stored in various folders for accessing at a later date. Also archiving systems are now inplace to reduce memory storage on your email accounts. Once these accounts are full, until you delete old sent-received emails your account can become frozen. Junk email can quickly fill your email account so a user needs to be careful of what emails they open from unknown sources. Another great tool, emails received that are of interest or contain important information can be quickly forwarded to a friend or colleague.

sources

http://www.voki.com/create.php

http://cybercoyote.org/security/av-email.htm

Shelly, G.B., Napier, H.A. & Rivers, O. (2010) Discovering the Internet Complete Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition