These documents are a lot like real-world mail, in that they come from someone, go to someone, and they have to be sent from one to the other. One difference between Internet e-mail and your national postal service is the time it takes to travel. The fastest real-world letter can go across country in a day. The average e-mail is delivered anywhere in the world in seconds. This is why Internet users refer to traditional postal service as snail mail .
Most Email programs are fairly intuitive.
To read them, simply double click on them. Click on the SEND button. If you're connected to the Internet, your message is traveling at the speed of light. E-mail addresses are often hard to remember. These simple concepts are enough for you to begin using the Internet.