A few years back people communicated to each other using Letters.
Post Offices developed throughout the world helping people send letters.
The Letters used to take one week to reach Europe and USA.
People waited patiently to receive replies from their near and dear ones.
We used to await the arrival of the Postman to our homes as we were eagerly waiting for letters.
Pen friends were developed across continents thro letters exchanged thro the postal service.
The postal work is considerably reduced as the need to write letters is no more there.
Everything has changed now.
Today is the age of Face book, Twitters, and e mail.
Mobiles have reduced the need to write e mails as well, as sms and chat over the mobiles have surpassed the use of e mails and chat on the PC’s.
The development of e mails was an interesting one.
1971: A computer engineer Mr. Ray Tomlinson used the @ sign to separate the name from the terminal he was using.
1980: AOL developed instant chat.
1989: The World Wide Web is born. Mr. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the Hyper Text Protocol (HTTP)
A language that enabled the computers to communicate hypertext documents over the internet.
1996: Mr. Sabeer Bhatia & Jack Smith launched the first E mail service and called it “Hot Mail”
Derived from HTML.
This is one of the biggest e Mail service providers today.
Later Microsoft acquired this company in 1997.
1997: Yahoo launches its E Mail service.
2004: Google is a late entrant to this facility and it is next to Hot Mail & Yahoo in users.
2004: Harvard Sophomore and Mark Zuckerberg launch the social networking site Face book which has revolutionized the concept of writing.
E mail has taken back seat and people write thro Face book.
As we see in 8 years since Hotmail was launched the e mail has become staid and social networking has taken over.
2011 Google Plus has entered the social networking site.
The invention of newer forms of communication is so fast that today we cannot write anymore but only tweet.
