Email is a shortened version of the two words 'electronic' and 'mail' and can be considered the electronic version of the letter.
Email is one of the most used and popular services on the Internet.
Email enables messages to be transferred from an individual to another individual or from an individual to a group of people.
Documents (audio, video, pictures etc.) can be attached to email messages and sent with the message.
Email can be sent and viewed various ways - the most common through a computer program, such as 'Outlook'.
Email can be sent to anywhere in the world and viewed whenever the recipient logs onto the Internet and checks their ‘mailbox’ where emails are stored.
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