Email

High school (ages 12+)
Making & Design

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Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/email

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of first network email?1971
2. What is the inventor?Ray Tomlinson
3. What is email and how does it travel so fast?Email is a way to send messages over the internet. It moves almost instantly, like a race car.
4. Who sent the first email and when?Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email in 1971 while working on ARPANET.

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, used for sending emails between servers.
POP3/IMAP: Protocols used by email clients to retrieve messages from a mail server.
Asynchronous Communication: Communication that does not require participants to be present at the same time.
DNS: Domain Name System, which translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses.