Exercise 3: Setting up Your E-mail Account
In this exercise you will get an e-mail account. You can send messages to and receive messages from anyone else with an e-mail address.
These messages are called e-mail.
The "e" in e-mail stands for electronic.
E-mail addresses
When you send snail mail (U.S. Postal Service), you use an address to be sure the mail gets to the right place. Postal mail is called snail mail because in comparison to the Internet (2-3 minutes), postal mail moves at a snail's pace (2-3 days).
You must also use an e-mail address in order to send and receive electronic mail.
An e-mail address looks like this:
marysmith@utcny.urbantech.org
Reading this from left to right:
Mary Smith - the local name
“at” - the @ symbol
utcny.urbantech.org - the location of the mail server on the Internet.
You say the periods as “dot”.
Getting an e-mail account
Hotmail is a free e-mail service you can use any time you have access to the Web — whether it's from your home, a friend's home, school, a public computer in the library, or a public computer at a mall. The only requirement is that the PC can access the Web.
To sign up for Hotmail
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Start the browser if it is not already open.
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Click in the Address box.
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The URL in the box is highlighted.
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Type the following URL in the box www.hotmail.com
You will see a window similar to the following.
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