How does e-mail work?
This is an add-on option, which allows you to send messages via Internet E-mail. It uses the SMTP protocol to send messages via a dial-up modem connection. You type in your e-mail message in the same text editor as for alpha paging, and you set up a “phone category” called E-mail. A person’s e-mail address is set up in his “phone/address book” together with all other phone/pager/fax numbers.
How can you send a letter to a friend that is delivered almost instantly? You use a computer! Actually, you need more than a computer – you need E-mail. E-mail, short for electronic mail, is just an electronic message sent from one computer to another computer. There is no doubt this technology has truly changed how we communicate with others. E-mail is mostly a positive change but some people still refuse to use E-mail. They feel it is not “personal” enough when you want to send a letter to a friend. In 1844, Samuel Morse made history when he sent the first telegram. A telegram let him send a message quickly through wires to another person far away. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell talked on a telephone for the first time. He called his assistant in the next room. In 1939, the first wireless message traveled between England and South Africa. Who knew that 32 years later we would have another amazing leap with technology and communication? In 1971, Ray Tomlinson changed how computers wou
