 Hello students. Let's see here. Using email. A story. Before there was email, we used phones. The phones were in our homes. We couldn't carry our phones with us. When you called your friend and he wasn't home, the phone rang and rang. There were no answering machines. There even was a time when there were no phones. At that time, how did people communicate? They wrote letters. Did you send a letter to anyone? Do you get letters in the mail? Today there are only four reasons that people usually send letters to each other. A love letter, if you are romantic. A birthday card or a holiday card. An invitation to a wedding. A condolence card, which is a card you send to a family when their family member dies. Today, when people say the word send, it usually doesn't mean that they're going to send a letter. It usually means that they are going to send an email. A short history of email. The first email was developed in 1972 by a man named Ray Tomlinson. At first, email was used by the military and by other government agencies inside of their organizations. Then, a man named Steve Doerner created a system named Udora for everyone in the world to use email. That was in 1988. Today, billions and billions of emails are sent every day. It's amazing. From 1988 to today, life has really changed. I hope you enjoy learning how to use email in this lesson. Goodbye.