What is Email aka Electronic Mail

Electronic mail or often abbreviated as e-mail or email is tell a means to send a letter or a method for exchanging digital messages through the Internet. This is different from the letter that we send it through regular mail. If regular mail, the sender usually pay per delivery, for example by buying stamps. While for electronic mail or email, the cost is the cost incurred for internet access.

Electronic mail has begun to be used in the 1960s. At that time the Internet has not been established, there is only a collection of "Mainframe" that as the network. Then, starting 1980, electronic mail may have been enjoyed by the public. Currently many companies in various countries postal income decreased due to people not already using the postal service again.

Electronic mail consists of two components, the message header, and content of the message, which is the email content. Message header contains control information, including, at least, an author of the email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually, additional information is added, such as the head of subject areas.

Example email address is as follows:

myemail@free-email.com

Description:
• myemail:
username, mailbox, username that you want to the direction in Mailserver.
• free-email.com:
Mailserver where the user name in the heading.

- free-email:
domain name, usually indicating the name of company / organization / individual (Vibriel).
- com:
top-level domain, indicating that this domain is registered in the international domain and the authority to include in the domain with the commercial category.

Some popular sites as a service provider to create a free email that is most widely used Google and Yahoo!. Google has Gmail and Yahoo! have a Yahoo! Mail. Yupp.. That is the info about Email aka Electronic Mail.