Examples of communication systems
Messaging Systems
Electronic Mail
Trends you could put down:
- One of the earliest uses of the Internet and is still widely used to this day
- Fast, economical and convenient which makes it relevant to today's 'Age of Information'
- Messages can be sent across the world in minutes
- Ever-increasing uses of email for personal/business use
- Revolutionised the way people communicate
- Exponential rate of email accounts/addresses, which aren't declining (ie more subscribers, more alternative 'email addresses', leading to a greater demand/increase in email usage).
And the biggest trend:
- The current trend is moving away from ISP hosted email inboxes (for example
user@bigpond.com or
user@optusnet.com.au and other ISPs), and towards web-based email storage, (that can be access globally/worldwide, from any computer connected to the Internet, doesn't require configuration of Outlook or email applications/software, only requires a browser).
Sites like
Hotmail (
www.hotmail.com) have made it possible for users to gain an email account through the use of a web browser (for free!). Users log onto a website and can check/compose emails. Other tasks such as forwarding, deleting, composing etc can also be performed via the web-based interface
You can probably make some more up yourself with email trends, target age groups (eg elderly/grandparents are starting to use it, kids are starting to email at a younger age, etc)
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