While most people don’t know (or even need to know) how this stuff works, I think it’s important to at least have a rudimentary understanding of how our tools function.
Blog Archive » Email.
Historically, email is one of the oldest applications on the internet. The ability to route messages asynchronously based on an address has been with us since the earliest days. Email is a classic example of a kind of technology that has become an almost universal model of content management — the “client-server architecture” model.
Many of you have made comments about how technology is great but it always breaks. When you know how it works, you can take effective action to fix it when it doesn’t.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I have been lucky that I have a “commo” soldier that lives behind me. She has been awesome helping me with my glitches. She “teaches” me how to fix it myself, that has been great as well. When the internet goes out, I will go B-hut to B-hut trying to find where the glitch might be. Sometimes it works, sometimes, it laughs as me and does nothing. Email has been a blessing for communicating with family and friends. IMing has been AWESOME, I text Mom from Yahoo Im straight to her cell phone, I love it. I can’t remember not having email. Maybe when I was in middle school. Just seems like it has always been there and I have used it for school and for entertainment.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I often use e-mail for education and entertainment also. I often receive funny e-mail forwards from people which I in turn send to other people. I also us e-mails to keep in touch and stay up-to-date with family, friends, teachers, classmates, coworkers, and bosses. E-mail is such a fantastic resource. It is easy to use, free, and most people use it. I may not know all about how it works, usually when my main e-mail is having a glitch and I need to send an e-mail I will send it through one of my to through one of my other account and tell the receiver that it is me in the subject bar. I then wait for the e-mail to start working again to see if I have new e-mail to read. My system isn’t perfect and I would like to be about to fix problems as they arise. But most of what I know about electronic devices I have taught my self or learned from trying different things until it fixes the problem.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I agree that you can always fix it when you know something about it. This can be a good thing or not so good. I have had the experience that most people in the school contact me when something isn’t going right with their technology. I get frustrated always going to people throughout the school, but it is JOB SECURITY, haha. It’s amazing how little people know about their technology that they use everyday.