You decided to register on the site you liked, and the registration form you requested your email address. But for the first time you hear about it, and the authorization had to cancel. Or they met a friend with whom he had long lost their connection, and now you want to communicate with him, but he suddenly also asked you the above address. What to tell him in response? Do not be discouraged and do not waste. Read this article, and you will no longer get to see, encountered with an incomprehensible combination of words.
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Before dealing with the main question, you need to understand, and what is generally represents the concept of email. Once back in 1965, two colleagues from the famous American University of Technology in Massachusetts have developed a program that allows you to send messages from one computer to another. The program was called - Mail, translated from English - "Mail". She was extremely simple and worked only for two computers - the sender and the addressee.
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Progress did not stand in place, and over time, the idea of \u200b\u200bprogrammers covered with improvements. As a result, a global electronic mailing service arose. From now on, all information from the computer, whether music, business documents, photos, or personal letters, can be transferred to any addressee you choose. And in the same way, the listed information resources can forward and you. In this case, the virtual postal system is not much different from the usual - there are also envelopes, departures, attachments, and most importantly - mailboxes. Playing a web box, you book free space on the network, using which you will send and receive your correspondence.
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Here and the email address is defined. Mailboxes from ordinary life are marked with numbers. Electronic network boxes have their own unique names that are called their address. These addresses are made of two components. The first part is the designation that you personally come up with. At the moment it can consist only of letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers and some other signs. The second part indicates the belonging to that portal, which will serve the maintenance of the mailbox being created. After all, as among the universal postal services, email on the Internet is ready to provide you with different web systems. In the world, it is customary to separate the unique name chosen by the user, from the company's signature label of the dog's sign - @. Sometimes in the second part of the address you can trace the identifier of the country, under the flag of which the virtual zip box is created.
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Imagine that you decide to make a mailbox on the famous Portal Milera and picked up the name Superbox for it. Then in the final version of your mailbox, the address of your mailbox will look like this - superbox@mail.ru, where you first your word, further belonging to the portal and through the point the abbreviated abbreviation of the country names, in this case, Russia. But often after a point there can be extensions. Org or .com.
Today, the most common email services are hotmail (operating since 1996), Yahoo! Mail, opened in 1997, Russian free email service Mail.Ru (started in 1998), postal service from Yandex (2000) and Mail-launched in 2004 from Google - Gmail. There are many more minor web resources providing email services. All of them work only with addresses in Latin. But the developers promise - soon the address of the e-mail can be prescribed by Cyrillic letters.