My experience creating HTML page

At first I thought “oh creating an HTML page has got to be a lot of work, you have to write a lot of codes and stuff. I wonder how many codes I have to write”. So I went and looked at the assignment and thought “This can’t be this simple”. But I followed the instruction and there it is I have created my own web page. But I am the only one who can open it, so I still don’t know how other people are creating web pages and letting the world see what they have created. I am guessing it has to do something with the I.P stuff we talked about in class. That said I wrote a couple of words on a plain white background, so I don’t know how those fancy looking websites did what they did. I am guessing long hours of grueling coding. That doesn’t sound fun. It was cool to see that how all this started was this simple a thing.   

Similarities and differences between E-mail and Postal Service

The postal service has been around for many ages, spanning back to ancient times. First form of messages that is similar to postal service I would say would have been when people used birds to send messages over large distances quickly. People would write a small messages attach it to the bird’s feet and then send the bird to a place or a person. Another form is a person going on a horse or by boat to deliver messages, this is the closest to postal service and going by horse, boat or using birds this happened five hundred to thousand years ago. So conveying messages has been around for long time. I guess the first messages were for trade for war purposes. To communicate with your allies or business partners was crucial. I would think that sending messages to family or friends only came up during major travel and colonizing when Europe set their eyes on the world. And back then it would take months to years to get in contact or receive the messages.

So when technology became advance enough to send messages through a network people were excited, excited because of how quick and efficient it was. Again first group of people to use electronic mail was the military or science and education departments. Just like in ancient time it came about through the advent of war. To send a secret messages to the opposite side of the world within seconds. To have a discussion within seconds this is what the electronic mail did. When the time came to when the public was using it, people had to think of a way to make it approachable and simple to everyday people. Otherwise it would fail simply because of not having knowledge of its functions. So now it’s very similar to a postal service which we have known since ancient time.

What is a postal service, it is a company who receives mail written by a person who wants it delivered to another person and the post office company is the intermediary between them. They only require an envelope with the letter inside and the address on the envelope, and a stamp, and fee to deliver it. The post man then gets his bundle of mail from the post office then goes and delivers them throughout his sector of the city. But an Electronic mail cuts the intermediary off which is the postal service and the mail man. E-mail directly sends you written message to the other person.

E-mail was so simple and efficient that the postal service no longer mattered but they are not useless yet. E-mail had the same basic functions as the Postal service such as a space to write the letter and a title. And address to input to send to the specified person. And just like the Postal Service, E-mail would go to the sever which is the Postal office and then go to the person. The interface to use and E-mail is so similar to and actual experience of going to the post office. You have a send button and or a picture of an envelope to click. You have an inbox to receive the mail. Have junk and spam mail these are all experiences had before the E-mail from the Postal service.

The major differences are that E-mail is faster and more efficient. No bills and payment required you don’t even have to leave your house to send the mail. One of the advantages of a postal service is the ability to ship objects. And when you send a letter it will most likely get to its destination even if you made some mistake on the address, Because of the Mail man’s familiarity with the area and community. If you make an error on the address of an E-mail it will go to the wrong person or won’t go to any person. Let’s hope that we can ship objects through electronic means in the future so we can be lazy bums and stay in the house.