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Integral capabilities

Powerful system

Universal scope

Global part

Electronic networking

Separate mail

Social technologies

Local networks

3. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту.

1. What is internet?

2. What networks does it consist of?

3. What does the abbreviation “www” mean?

4. When did the history of internet begin?

5. What happened in 1982?

6. When was internet commercialized?

7. What is the influence of internet on society nowadays?

8. Do you use internet? How often do you do it? For what purposes do you use it?

Electronic Business

Electronic business (E-business) involves business process spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. E-commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the Internet to build and enhance relationships with clients and partners.

According to research firm IDC, the size of total worldwide e-commerce, when global business-to-business and -consumer transactions are added together, will equate to $ 16 trillion in 2013. IDate, another research firm, estimates the global market for digital products and services at $ 4.4 trillion in 2013. A report by Oxford Economics adds those two together to estimate the total size of the digital economy at $ 20.4 trillion, equivalent to roughly 13.8 % of global sales.

While much has been written of the economic advantages of Internet-enabled commerce, there is also evidence that some aspects of the internet such as maps and location-aware services may serve to reinforce economic inequality and the digital divide. Electronic commerce may be responsible for consolidation and the decline of mom-and-pop, brick and mortar businesses resulting in increases in income inequality.

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1. What is electronic business?

2. Is it popular among buyers?

3. What is the size of e-commerce?

4. What are advantages and disadvantages of electronic business?

History of E-mail

Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email or e-mail, is a way of sending text, graphics and photographs down a phone line, over the Internet. Electronic mail is a natural and perhaps inevitable use of networked communication technology that developed along with the evolution of the Internet. Indeed, message exchange in one form or another has existed from the early days of timesharing computers.

An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email’s content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator’s email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.

Originally a text-only communications medium, email was extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).

Internet based e-mail system was designed by a Computer engineer – Ray Tomlinson in late 1971 while working with ARPANET. Tomlinson used a file transfer protocol to send electronic messages to any computer on the ARPANET network. The first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting beside each other but connected through ARPANET. The first important email standard was called SMTP, or simple message transfer protocol. SMTP was very simple and is still in use – however, SMTP has a problem – it makes no attempt to find out whether the person claiming to have sent a message is actually the same person. This basic flaw in the protocol was later to be exploited by viruses and worms, and by security frauds and spammers forging identities. Some of these problems are still being addressed.

In 2004, when Internet standards for email began to mature the POP (or Post Office Protocol) servers began to appear as a standard – before that each server was a little different. POP was an important standard to allow users to develop mail systems that would work with each other. Now Internet mail is defined by a large number of standards and recommendations by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). However, only a few of the protocols used in Internet mail are full IETF standards. Most of these standards are being used by for people writing Internet mail software.

Supported e-mail clients:

- Microsoft Outlook Express

- Microsoft Windows Mail

- Microsoft Windows Live Mail

- Mozilla Thunderbird

1. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту.

1. What is e-mail?

2. What components does an e-mail message consist of?

3. What information does the message header contain?

4. Who designed internet based e-mail system?

5. When did it happen?

6. How was the first e-mail sent?