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electronic mail
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......unsolicited commercial e-mail, known as spam...significant problem. E-mail, especially through...The Elements of E-Mail Style: Communicate Effectively Via Electronic Mail (1994); N. A...Better, Faster Email: Getting the Most......
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e-mail
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...e-mail: see electronic mail....
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Internet, the
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......providers) that enable individuals to access the network. The most popular features of the Internet include electronic mail (e-mail), blogs (web logs or journals), discussion groups (such newsgroups, bulletin boards, or forums where......
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advertising
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......business publications, billboards, and circulars sent through the mail. With the advent of the wide availability of electronic mail and access to the World Wide Web in the 1990s, the Internet has also become an important advertising venue. Since many......
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computer virus
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......itself off as a benign application; it cannot reproduce itself and, like a virus, must be distributed by diskette or electronic mail. Such forms of computer malware have been used since the early 21st cent. to steal sensitive information from government......
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network
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......sharing (e.g., multiple computers sharing one printer), data sharing, and communication or data exchange (e.g., electronic mail). See W. Stallings, ed., Advances in Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (1994); F. Halsall, Data Communications......
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postal service
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......Service (UPS), have competed for special services, and by the 1990s electronic services such as fax (see facsimile) and electronic mail also cut into the postal service's business.See F. G. Kay, Royal Mail (1951); F. Staff, The Transatlantic Mail......
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videotex
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......more significant, especially in the United States. These made the home user part of an interactive network and provide electronic mail and bulletin board facilities in addition to traditional videotex services. Videotex was ultimately superseded by the development......
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personal digital assistant
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......are used as notepads, appointment schedulers, and wireless communicators for sending and receiving data, faxes, and electronic-mail messages. Introduced in 1993, PDAs achieved only modest acceptance during the remainder of the decade due to their relatively......
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telegraph
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......printed form. Today telegraphy is rarely used, having been supplanted by the telephone, facsimile machines, and computer electronic mail, among others. Western Union, the American telegraph company whose origins date to 1851, stopped transmitting telegrams......