A Short History of Email by Jimson Lee

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This may go through like a mini-course in ancient history, but I am only heading back 20 years.



Back within the mid 1980?s during University, my email would be a mcgill.ca address while my American associates had an ?.edu? current email address. Access about bat roosting systems was via a Telnet session at one of the school?s terminals. From home, I could dial-in with a SLIP server using a 2400 baud modem, and get my email so long as I had a Telnet client.



Those who didn?t head to College had access to some Freenet account, which has been also accessible through Telnet.



When I graduated together to pay for an Internet Service Provider, I accessed email through POP and SMTP with Outlook or Eudora for decades until I needed a chance to access the net from anywhere inside world. IMAP helped bridge the gap providing the mail client was setup on my work and home computer so all my mail, Inbox, Sent Items, and Drafts, were synchronized.



With very good of net based emails through the mid 1990?s, the big 3 were MSN's Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google's Gmail. People would change or have multiple accounts as space for storage was the biggest headache. It wasn't way back when when 2 megabytes was the maximum space for storage. Gmail was the first one to offer 2 gigabytes of storage, and fast growing.



Most internet based email providers had the ability to download POP email, however your email ?from? or ?reply-to? address was usually your internet based current email address. This is acceptable for personal use, however, not for corporate use.



At a corporate level, Microsoft Exchange together with the Outlook client was highly sought after, which is still popular today. Exchange is really a messaging and groupware server which utilizes IMAP as the many protocols to gain access to email. It also offers the Outlook Web Access feature that was more convenient than conventional net based email mainly because it had your contacts, shared calendars and public folders.



Today, I still like using Outlook, since it offers a great ?store and forward? mechanism: to be able to work off-line on my small laptop. I can readily work in Draft mode while on an airplane and connect to the internet service providers near me to synchronize my mailbox when back on land. Plus, my Contacts are synchronized with my Palm PDA or Blackberry wireless handheld device.



Sure, I could download my Yahoo or Gmail to my Outlook by using POP, but it wouldn't synchronize any changes. It also depends if my mail was deleted for the server after downloading, or stored on the server. Sorting email might be painfully slow with Yahoo in comparison to Gmail's lightning fast search algorithm, however you can't sort by file size, for instance.



Now that Gmail supports IMAP, by combining it with Outlook, I combine the best of both worlds. There are a few features of Outlook I cannot live without, and with the buzz of online community, integration with LinkedIn or Facebook causes it to be more appealing.



There is often a trend web hosting email decreasing in support of Instant Messaging and txt messaging via mobile phone. However, Email will always have a place inside the corporate world.





Jimson Lee works as a possible Information Technology Consultant focusing on Infrastructure Management, Services & Security and a contributing writer for



He is another contributing writer for and