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Activity 2 - E-mail

10/19/2013

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Michael Tucci

10/25/2013 03:41:36 am

5. Five new things that i learned and found interesting are: Ray Tomlinston sent the first electronic email, the most popular email password is 123456, email is an essential business tool, use acronym codes to speed up the email process, and try not to send large attachments to avoid clogging and freezing

Jeannel T

10/25/2013 03:53:16 am

The five things I've found interesting from the articles is, what the "@" is, the most common password, which animated character's email was hacked, what is Google’s Spam- Flavored Easter Egg and where the word Spam came from.
I found the '@' sign interesting because I've had an email for many years now and never thought what the '@' really means in Morse Code. So basically it combines Morse for 'A' and 'C' and known as 'commat,' an abbreviation of " commercial at"
Next the most common password is “123456” because I thought, people just don’t care about what they're password is and they probably made that password for a random email not really or anything. In other words, why couldn’t they come up with another password that will fit.
Thirdly, I found the animated characters email that has been hacked interesting because how does an animated character have an email. Even if they do, there must of been a person taking care of the email, like a big company.
The word Spam always interested me, I honestly thought that the word spam came from the food item Spam and it was slang for emails. Apparently, Google has a little fun with spam via an Easter egg. When opening the “Spam” folder turns into recipes.
The word spam came from Monty Python sketch, and it was chanting by Vikings that drowns out all meaning. Today it is known for nuisance e-mail. I found this interesting because it is basically the complete opposite of what the Vikings came up with.

Jeannel

10/28/2013 02:52:55 am

The five things I've found interesting from the articles is, what the "@" is, the most common password, which animated character's email was hacked, what is Google’s Spam- Flavored Easter Egg and where the word Spam came from.
I found the '@' sign interesting because I've had an email for many years now and never thought what the '@' really means in Morse Code. So basically it combines Morse for 'A' and 'C' and known as 'commat,' an abbreviation of " commercial at"

Next the most common password is “123456” because I thought, people just don’t care about what they're password is and they probably made that password for a random email not really or anything. In other words, why couldn’t they come up with another password that will fit.

Thirdly, I found the animated characters email that has been hacked interesting because how does an animated character have an email. Even if they do, there must of been a person taking care of the email, like a big company.

The word Spam always interested me, I honestly thought that the word spam came from the food item Spam and it was slang for emails. Apparently, Google has a little fun with spam via an Easter egg. When opening the “Spam” folder turns into recipes.

The word spam came from Monty Python sketch, and it was chanting by Vikings that drowns out all meaning. Today it is known for nuisance e-mail. I found this interesting because it is basically the complete opposite of what the Vikings came up with

Alex G

10/28/2013 03:31:33 am

5. Five things I learned were
1. Ray Tomlinson is the first person to send an email
2. The most popular email password is 123456
3. Yahoo is the biggest web-mail service
4. The first email from space was sent in 1991
5. In Italian the @ symbol is called chiocciolina and means small snail

Gary

10/29/2013 03:41:23 am

The five things I've found interesting from the articles is, what the "@" is, the most common password, which animated character's email was hacked, what is Google's Spam- Flavored Easter Egg and where the word Spam came from.

I found the '@' sign interesting because I've had an email for many years now and never thought what the '@' really means in Morse Code.

Next the most common password is "123456" because I thought, people just don't care about what they're password is and they probably made that password for a random email not really or anything.

Thirdly, I found the animated characters email that has been hacked interesting because how does an animated character have an email. The word Spam always interested me, I honestly thought that the word spam came from the food item Spam and it was slang for emails.

Audrey

10/29/2013 03:49:31 am

While reading the article about ten fascinating facts about e-mail, there were five things that I learned, that I didn’t know before. The first thing I learned was that the first ever email was sent by Ray Tomlinson. He sent the email to the computer beside him, and to this day he cannot remember what he wrote in the first email. Another thing I learned is that the most used password is, “123456”. Thirdly, I learned that there are 6 proper ways of spelling the word email. It can be written as, e-mail, email, Email, E-Mail, E-mail or eMail. I also learned that the first ever email to be sent from space was in 1991. Finally, the last thing I learned was that 294 billion e-mails are sent every single day.

Vanessa

10/29/2013 03:52:30 am

5 Things I Found Interesting:

1. The most common email password is 123456. I find that pretty unclever as having a simple, predictable password such as this leaves your email prone to being hacked. This provides very little privacy and protection.

2. They made a morse code for the keyboard character "@", They used a combination of A and C, and named it "commat" or "commercial at".

3. There are multiple ways of spelling the shortened word of "electronic mail". This includes: email, Email, e-mail, E-mail, and eMail. The most common spelling is email or Email, but there is no official correct spelling.

4. The most popular Webmail service is Yahoo, followed by Hotmail. Gmail comes in third, but is quickly growing in popularity.

5. The character Homer Simpson had an email address, which the writer of the Simpsons used to reply to people's emails in character. The email was chunkylover53@aol.com. It was eventually hacked.

Anthony I

10/29/2013 10:43:37 am

5 Things That I Found Interesting

i) The most commonly used password is "123456". I found this interesting because now-a-days, most people that I know of would not dare to put that as their password. It seems very stupid to put that as your password as it would be very easy to guess. I would feel as if my stuff was unprotected if that was my password because it is very common.

ii) Acronym codes are also very interesting as it would help to revolutionize the e-mailing service and make it quicker and easier to read. If an e-mail had "NNTR" (no need to respond), I would automatically know that I would not need to respond, therefore not need to click anything, I could just simply read the e-mail. If used in the proper manner, I believe that this could be seen as the proper way to send an e-mail.

iii) It was interesting to see that not having an intro/conclusion is fine with most people using e-mail. I know from past experiences with my parents' work, that they have always created a well structured e-mail with an into, body and conclusion.

iv) It was interesting to see that the word spam came from an old online role playing chat rooms called MUDs. The show was funny and also shows why we adapted that word into our culture since they regarded it as something back then too.

v) Yahoo (as of September 2010) was the number one e-mail service provider was interesting to see as I never would have thought that it would have been Yahoo. I though that it would be hotmail because in order to use MSN (a really popular instant messaging service at the time) you needed a hotmail account which was essentially an e-mail.

Daniel L

10/29/2013 02:54:45 pm

One of the five things I found interesting is that the term "spam" came from an online role-playing game chat room from the 1980's. I originally thought "spam" was a term that was created with the introduction of the e-mail but it was actually a term that became popularized through the Internet.

I also found it interesting how Google has fun with spam web clips by instead of playing the actual clip in Gmail, they will display recipes with Spam (the canned meat) in it. I thought Google was a very serious company but I'm glad Google knows how to have a little bit of fun with its users especially with a very annoying nuisance in the form of spam.

I found it interesting how large file attached to e-mails can clog up the inbox or freeze mobile devices trying to open it since I assumed the worst a large file could do is make the recipient wait a long time for it to open. I was never aware that large file attachments could actually cause a frustrating annoyance to the person opening it.

It is interesting how e-mail is spelled differently by many people despite it being a known term throughout the world. I thought by now a single spelling of e-mail would have been decided on but there are many different ways people spell e-mail like email, Email and eMail and each thinks their way of spelling it is right so you may get ridiculed for your spelling of "e-mail" by some people.

It surprises me how in 2010, the most used webmail service was actually Yahoo Mail. Not too long ago before 2010, almost everyone in my grade used Hotmail so they could have access to MSN Messenger which was like the Twitter of that time in terms of popularity. Of course as people began moving to Twitter and Facebook from MSN but I assumed they all kept their Hotmail e-mail addresses but maybe some of them switched to Yahoo or another service for some reason. This statistic of Yahoo Mail being more popular could also be a result of more adults using Yahoo Mail who are more numerous than teens around my age.

maria

10/30/2013 02:52:20 am

Five things that interest me the most:
1.) The real meaning of the “@” sign which more on animal related. Some of the meanings are monkey tail, an “A” with an elephant trunk, sleeping cat, little duck, small snail, and little worm.
2.) Is Email doomed? Which a lot of the things that was there before like emails have became less effective because of the different types of chatting systems that could help you in touch with a lot of people. Chatting is more effective way on dealing with business which could help you to understand each other more. Unlike before, we intend to use email and wait for it for hours before they reply and that’s really not efficient in waiting for answers.
3.) Acronyms: This is one way to let your reader know if they need to respond or not. Some acronyms that are used is NNTR “NO NEED TO RESPOND” or RR “RESPONSE REQUIRED”. These kinds of things are better when mail is sent.
4.) Electronic Signature is required: This is important if you need to know who read your mail as you send it. The importance matters to you a lot so you need to make sure the right reader sees it.
5.) DON’T SEND BIG ATTACHMENTS: This is the type of things that you shouldn't do because it can annoy people with mobile devices that could cause them a lot. If you need to send a huge file tells them first so that they expect it not just sending it right away.

Bolinda

10/30/2013 03:02:04 am

My five interesting things are:The first one make me know that the origin of the email.
The third one makes me know 123456 is an easy but popular password. And I used this before, too. I realized maybe when I used this, my friends around me also use this. That will be fun.
The sixth one told me there are many ways to spell email. Actually I often use email not e-mail.
The seventh let me know the most popular website of email in the U.S. It can help me to choose a suitable email for me.
The ninth one is about space. Space and email are two topics that I am interested in.

Adriano R

10/30/2013 03:14:27 am

1.use acronym codes to speed up the email process

2.The most common email password is 123456.

3.In Italian the @ symbol is called chiocciolina and means small snail

4.Ray Tomlinston sent the first electronic email

5.They made a morse code for the keyboard character "@", They used a combination of A and C, and named it "commat" or "commercial at".

Michael S

10/30/2013 03:16:35 am

10 things I learned are:
1) many people use this common password "12345"
2)In Swedish, it's snabel-a — "A" with an elephant's trunk
3)Ray Tomlinson is credited as being the first person to hit send on a network e-mail message.
4)The term spam is widely thought to have come from the above Monty Python sketch, where its incessant chanting by Vikings
5)Email is forty years old this month, with the first message having been sent in October 1971.
6)Don't get overly complex when formatting your email signature.
7) keep emails as short as you possibly can, even if it means more time and effort at your end to achieve the correct wording.
8)never send large files as attachments
9)Email is an essential part of modern communication
10)the most popular webmail is yahoo

Demi

10/30/2013 03:21:10 am

5. One thing that I found interesting in the “10 interesting facts about e-mail” is that the most common e-mail password since 2009 is “123456”. Another interesting fact that I read in this article is that 1991 was the year where the first e-mail was sent from space from the crew aboard the STS-43 Atlantis using Apple's AppleLink software. One thing I found interesting in the “the first e-mail was sent 40 years ago” is that the first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 after he was told to modify a program which let messages be sent between different users on the same computer. Another interesting fact that I read in this article is that 262 billion spam messages were sent daily in 2010. One thing I found interesting in the “8 Tips for a More Civilized E-mail” is to never send large files as attachments because can freeze mobile devices and clog up a persons inbox.

Megan

10/30/2013 03:29:17 am

Five things that I have learned and found interesting are:

1.Yahoo (as of September 2010) was the number one e-mail service provider was interesting to know because I though that it would be hotmail because in order to use MSN you needed a hotmail account. Also I know a lot of people that use and have a hotmail account; For me I have 4 emails using hotmail.

2. Sending large attachments causes clogging and freezing of the page.

3.The most commonly used password is "123456". I found this interesting because I would feel as if my files were unprotected.

4.They made a morse code for the keyboard character "@", They used a combination of A and C, and named it "commat" or "commercial at", Which makes it much easier for people when typing.

5. Ray Tomlinson is the first person to send an email. He must have been really smart.

Kristin

10/30/2013 03:34:10 am

1. What I found interesting was that the most common and popular password for email is "123456"

2. The "@" sign in morse code is a symbol with a combination of the lettter "a" and the letter "c". This is known as "commat". Short form for "commercial at".

3. There are different ways to write "email" some dictionaries drop the hyphen, therefore, making it "email". However, The Associated Press Stylebook insists that it is, in fact, e-mail. Short form for electronic mail.

4. It is recommended not to send large attachments because it can clog up your inbox, freeze your device, and cause many other problems.

5. The "@" symbol is called many different things in different languages. For example, in Dutch, it's apestaart, 'monekys tail'.

Karla

10/30/2013 03:35:48 am

5.) Five things that i found interesting:
that the @ sign has various funny names in different languages , most animal and appearance related such as in Italian, it's chiocciolina meaning small snail. I also learned “123456” was the most popular email password in 2009, this is interesting to me because I’ve had that as my password .i find it funny and creative how homer from the Simpsons had an email account , its sad that they no longer reply to fans and that it was hacked. I also find it interesting that although email was invented in the late 60’s it did not become known or popular till the 90’s .Email is an essential business tool, and it’s unlikely to be replaced, I think email accounts are as important as your house address , it a way for people to find you . its necessary for many things such as signing up for various websites. also find it interesting that An unexpected giant attachment can clog up inboxes, freeze mobile devices .

Daniel C

10/30/2013 03:41:02 am

5 things I found interesting about E-mail

–123456 is the most common E-mail password. The fact that so many people use a password that is that easily guessable surprises me. Many personal E-mail accounts could have sensitive information on them, so using a password of this nature is definitely a risk to their privacy and security.

-The @ sign, used in E-mail addresses didn’t have a Morse code counterpart until 2004. The Morse code for @, • _ _ • _ •, combines the code for “A” and “C”, standing for “Commercial At”.

-There is no official way to spell E-mail. Variations include, Email, email, e-mail,
E-mail, E-Mail, eMail, e-Mail, and many others. The Associated Press Stylebook says it’s supposed to be e-mail, but that’s just one source.

-The biggest E-mail service is Yahoo, followed by Hotmail, and them Gmail in third place. I found it surprising that Gmail wasn’t larger than Hotmail. From my experience, it seems that Gmail was the more popular E-mail.

-The @ sign means many different things depending on the language. In English we call it “at”, or “Commercial At”. The Dutch translation in English is “Monkey’s tail, for Sweden it’s “A with an elephant trunk”, for Italy it’s “Small snail”.

Javier A link

10/30/2013 03:48:26 am

5. The first fact I found interesting is that email was first developed by accident because he was tasked to work on something else other then e-mail. Secondly, I found it interesting that the most common used password is 123456, how stupid/lazy can you be? Thirdly, I never would have guessed that yahoo email is still one of the most used emails, I did not even think it existed anymore. Fourthly, I found it really interesting that the first email sent to earth was in 1991 using a Macintosh portable. Lastly, the last thing I found interesting and humorous is that Homer Simpson, a fictional character’s email was hacked

Paul C

10/31/2013 06:35:57 am

1. The fact that Yahoo is the biggest E-Mail service in the US is surprising, considering many of the people I know are on Hotmail.

2. The "@' symbol really means "commercial at" in morse code. I had just assumed that it was a symbol for "at".

3. A large file can clog/slow someone's E-Mail. I thought it was dependant on a computer's speed. I've never sent a large file before, so this was interesting information.

4. The fact that people actually use the password "123456". I figured nobody would be stupid enough to do that, especially when wanting to protect their information. It's strange that a password like that would be common.

5. That there was an E-Mail for Homer Simpson which was hacked into. It's strange what lengths hackers go to in order to deliver malaware...

semra

11/4/2013 02:15:58 am

I never knew that in the United States yahoo mail is the most used email service. Another thing I never knew before was the most common email password was 123456 where 10,000 people had this same exact password. The first email to be released in October 1971 was by Ray Tomlinson and it read ‘testing 123’ with two side by side computers. Something else I never knew was RR indicates "response required;" and "NNTR" means no need to respond. Lastly it took people 19 years to adjust to email to communicate with one another. People didn’t enjoy the concept at first until everybody started using it.

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