1. Before reading the text watch a video Read the text and do exercises a lans (Local Area Networks) Networking

Lesson 24: E-mail.
Lesson materials
APPENDIX 3. VIDEO. HISTORY OF E-MAIL.
Watch the video and answer these questions.
1. When the first e-mail was created?

Answer: 1971 . y in October.

2. Who was the first composer of the e-mail?

Answer: Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of email; in 1971
3. What kind of machine it was sent through?

Answer: the ARPANET
4. What does “neat idea” mean?

Answer:

5. Which symbol was chosen to connect the username with the destination and why?

Answer: Tomlinson chose the @ symbol to connect the username with the destination address and it has become part of the international language of communication. 
APPENDIX 4. READING.

Read the text and do given exercises.
A What an email is

An email is an electronic message sent from one computer to another that can also include attachments: documents, pictures, sounds and even computer programs. Although it’s much faster and easier to use than the post, snail mail, the two have many things in common: you send an email to a mail server (an electric post office) where it is stored in a mailbox, which holds incoming mail until the recipient downloads it. Users are given an email address and a password by an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

A typical email address has three parts.