Email and Internet

Electronic Mail (Email)

• Is the communication of information:
• using a computer.
• Via a telephone circuit.
• The information is sent from one computer to another.
• From one computer to several computers at the same time.
• It uses modems.
• Each subscriber has an electronic mail address e.g. [email protected].
• Each subscriber has a secret code (password).
• Information received can be stored, retrieved and printed.
• Quick transmission of messages.
• A cheap means of sending messages.

Internet

• Uses satellite dishes, computer, telephone circuit and modems.
• Sends information.
• Receives information.
• Stores information.
• Information can be retrieved.
• Information is displayed on the computer.
• It is a library for world-wide information e.g. sports, quotations and fashion.
• It is cheap a cheap and fast way of communication.

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