From the Snail mail to Email
Indian postal system is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. We send letters, greeting cards, books and several other things via post office. It is called the mail or post. Usually these are delivered on the following day if within a state in India. The letters to other states take three of more days for delivery. For the countries outside India, it usually takes minimum seven days to get them by airmail. The Universal Postal Union helps to send letters and other materials around the world.
Egyptian postal system is the oldest postal system in the world. In ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs used messengers to deliver decrees within their country some 4400 years ago. Letters sent through post office is now called snail mail.
The message sent by email is faster. However, it is slower than the speed of light . A few seconds only required for the computers to encode the message and decode it back to light beams.
In 1978, V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai invented the email system. He was a 14-year old boy then. It all came out of a young boy's play. He is hailed as the inventor of the electronic mail. Today it is called email in abbreviated form.
Popular Email Service Providers:
Gmail : a free email service developed by Google launched on April 1, 2004
Yahoo! Mail : An email service launched in 1997 by the company Yahoo!
Mail : This is an email client by Apple Inc.
Outlook.com : This is Microsoft's email client which replaced the Hotmail in 2011.
AOL mail : AOL stands for America Online and it is an email service owned by Verizon Communications.
