- Timeline of Communication Systems: Introduction
 
        
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        Electronic Messaging (E-Mail) 
     
Electronic messages are transmitted and received by computers through a network. By E-Mail texts, images, sounds and videos can be sent to single users or simultaneously to a group of users. Now texts can be sent and read without having them printed.
  E-Mail is one of the most popular and important services on the Internet.
  
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