Monday, February 14, 2022

Email

Everyone knows what email is and has without a doubt used it at some point, but that not how it always was. The invention of email was a revolutionary point within our history and before it there was nothing like it ever seen before. Before email postal services ruled the world, and contacting someone could take days or and then even longer for a response back. The first version fo email was invented in 1865 at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After this things began to take off. 

In 2002, the blackberry phone was invented. This allowed for mobile emails and communication and completely reinvented everything. Before this emails were only on desktop computers allowing for very little flexibility. However, now within a mobile device email began to really take over the world. To put it in perspective even before email had been introduced to mobile phones, it was still so popular that in 1976, Queen Elizabeth became the first head of state and monarch to send an email. 


Although email is one of the most revolutionary inventions fo our generation, everything has its downsides. One of emails biggest flaws is spam. Spam emails are a strategy used by companies or individuals to overload your inbox with loads of emails to subscribe to or buy their products. There is pretty much no way around this issue other than having separate email accounts created just for spam. Another major issue with email is that is very easily hackable. Within the past couple of years there have been hundreds of massive email leaks that have exposed government secrets, private information, and individuals private conversations. This is obviously out of the control of email companies and email itself, but is still a major issue that still needs to be dealt with. 

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