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Yahoo Mail is celebrating their 20th
birthday this month! They’ve been around for a decade, and between now and
then, our email habits sure have changed. Yahoo’s mail service originally
started due to the acquisition of Rocket Mail. They were watching Hotmail
sweep up thousands of users everyday, and knew they didn’t have the time to
create their own platform. Shortly after the acquisition of Rocket Mail,
Yahoo! Mail launched. Back when the service first launched, each user was
allowed just 3 megabytes of storage. These days, email has become a primary way
that many of us share photos with friends and family, and those photo
attachments are much larger than what the total inbox storage limit was just a
few years ago. With Yahoo celebrating their 10th birthday, we thought it was a
perfect time to take a look at how our email habits have changed over time.
Yahoo
has put together a survey which takes a look at our changing email
habits. Among the questions that they asked was “If you were stranded on
a desert island and could have only one of the following, what would you
choose? The options were chocolate, photo album, email, MP3 player,
sunscreen. Most people will likely choose email. Why? Because that’s how
many of us communicate with friends and family on a regular basis. Back in
1999, Americans were sending 2.1 billion emails every day. Today that
number is up to 196 billion emails per day! It’s clear that we rely much more
on email now than we ever did 10 years ago.
The Miracle Of How Have Your Email Habits Changed Over Time.
What we
use 'email' for is also changing. Before, it was primarily used just to
email a friend to determine where to meet or to say hi. Now we send
emails to companies for technical support, and we receive order confirmations
for items purchased online. Instead of making a phone call to ask a question to
someone, we send an email. Instead of mailing off a letter to family or
friends that live farther away, we email. Given the choice, many of us prefer
to send an email to someone instead of making a call.
Besides
the fact that email habits have changed over the last several years, the mail
services themselves have had to make a lot of changes to “keep up.” Yahoo
points out that back when they first launched email, users had the choice of
having their email address displayed in a public directory and most people
opted in. Now none of us would ever think to post our address in a public
directory for fear of getting spammed. Spam accounts for more than 70% of all
email sent these days! Along the same lines is Phishing emails. Phishing
has become more prominent and so mail services have had to take extra steps to
prevent those emails from reaching the inboxes of their users.
I can only imagine what the state of email will be like in
another 20 years from now! It continues to change and evolve, and 20 years from
now, we may not even have email! How have your emailing habits changed over
time? Happy 20th birthday Yahoo! Mail! Source: Yodel Anecdotal The Miracle Of How Have Your Email Habits Changed Over
Time.
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