E-Mail

Setting up an Account

Decide on an email provider. There are countless different email providers—most of which are
free to sign up for and use—but the three most popular ones are the following:
 Gmail — Google mail. Signing up for Gmail also creates a Google account, which is useful for
YouTube and other large social media sites.
 Outlook — Microsoft-created mail. An Outlook account is required for some Microsoft services
such as Microsoft Word (or Office 365), Windows 10, Skype, and Xbox LIVE.
 Yahoo — Yahoo is a simple email provider with features like news in your inbox and a terabyte
of online storage.
 All three of the above email providers have mobile apps for your smartphone available for free.
This will allow you to send and receive email from your smartphone via your favorite provider.

Go to the email provider's website. The websites for each of the listed providers are as follows:
 Gmail — https://www.gmail.com/
 Outlook — https://www.outlook.com/
 Yahoo — https://www.yahoo.com/

Click the "Sign Up" button. This button may say "Create an Account" or something similar
and is typically in the upper-right side of the email page.

 If you are on Yahoo's main website, you may need to click the Sign in button first, and
then click Sign up at the bottom of the "Sign in" page.

Enter your information. Though there may be additional information needed, you'll typically
be required to add the following information for all email providers:

 Your name

 A phone number

 Your preferred email address

 Your preferred password

  Your date of birth

Complete the setup process. In some cases, you'll be required to verify your identity over the
phone (as in the case of Yahoo), while other email providers simply ask you to prove you're
human by checking a box. Once you've completed the setup process, you're ready to send your
email.

Sending an Email with Gmail

Open Gmail. Go to https://www.gmail.com/ in any web browser on your computer. This will
open your Gmail inbox if you're logged into your Gmail account.

 If you aren't logged into Gmail, enter your email address and password when prompted
before proceeding.

Click ＋Compose. It's in the top-left corner of the inbox. Doing so will open a pop-up window on
the right side of the page.

Enter a recipient's email address. Click the "Recipients" text box at the top of the pop-up
window, then type in the email address to which you want to send an email.

Enter a subject. Click the "Subject" text box, then type in whatever you want to use for the
subject.

 The subject is typically used to give the recipient an idea of what the email will be about.

Write your email. Click the text box below the "Subject" text field, then type in your email's
body.

 You can highlight a piece of text in your email and then click one of the formatting
options (e.g., B to bold) at the bottom of the window.

 If you want to add photos or files to the email, click the paperclip icon or the "photos"
icon at the bottom of the window and then select an option.

Click Send. It's a blue button in the bottom-left corner of the pop-up window. Doing so sends
your email to the specified recipient.
CC – Carbon Copy

When you add recipients to your message, you have the option to add a "cc" field. Anyone in this
field will see the other recipients of the message.

"Cc" is often used to add recipients to an email who don't need to take any action.

BCC – Blind Carbon Copy

If you're sending a message and want to hide a recipient's email address, you can add them in the
"bcc" field.

How "bcc" works

 The recipients won't know that you added anyone to bcc.

 Anyone you add to the "bcc" field will see that they were added using "bcc." They will
also see message recipients in the "to" and "cc" fields. Note: If they don't use Gmail, they
may not see this information.

 People you add in "bcc" can't see the name or email address of anyone else you add in the
"bcc" field.

 If people reply all to a message, people in "bcc" won't see the reply.

Send messages & attachments confidentially

Note: If you're using Gmail with a work or school account, contact your admin to make sure you
can use confidential mode.

1. On your computer, go to Gmail.

2. Click Compose.

3. In the bottom right of the window, click Turn on confidential mode .

Tip: If you've already turned on confidential mode for an email, go to the bottom of the
email, then click Edit.

4. Set an expiration date and passcode. These settings impact both the message text and any
attachments.

 If you choose "No SMS passcode," recipients using the Gmail app will be able to
open it directly. Recipients who don't use Gmail will get emailed a passcode.
  If you choose "SMS passcode," recipients will get a passcode by text
message. Make sure you enter the recipient's phone number, not your own.

5. Click Save.

List of Email Providers

Gmail Zohomail Outlook.com Mail.com Yahoo Mail GMX

Proton Mail AOL Mail Yandex Mail Tutanota iCloud Mail Fast Mail
Rediff Mail

History of Internet

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik. The
Sputnik success necessitated American reaction. It was a question of pride and leadership. The
US Department of Defense responded by establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA, 2004), designed to promote research that would ensure that the USA compete with and
excel over the USSR in any technological race. ARPA’s mission was to produce innovative
research ideas, to provide meaningful technological impact that went far beyond the convention
evolutionary developmental approaches, and to act on these ideas by developing prototype
systems

The ARPANET was launched by Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) at the end of
1969.12 BBN was commissioned to design four Interface Message Processors (IMPs), machines
that would create open communication between four different computers running on four
different operating systems, thus creating the first long-haul computer network and connecting
between the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) in Menlo Park, California, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the
University of Utah which together comprised the Network Working Group (NWG).13 A fifth
ARPANET node was installed at BBN’s headquarters. Each node consisted of an IMP, which
performed the store-and-forward packet switching functions. Packet switching was a new and
radical idea in the 1960s. Via ARPANET’s Network Control Protocol (NCP), users were able to
access and use computers and printers in other locations and transport files between computers.
This was an investigational project that explored the most favorable way of building a network
that could function as a trustworthy communications medium. The main hurdle to overcome was
to develop an agreed upon set of signals between different computers that would open up
communication channels, enabling data to pass from one point to another. These agreed upon
signals were called protocols.

List of Browsers

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