Currently, about 5.52 billion people are using the Internet around the world. According to data analysis platform DemandSage, about 4.5 billion of these people use e-mail, which could reach close to 5 billion by 2027.

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With the rapid development of digital technology, the tendency of people to connect online is increasing. At the same time, Internet has become an important part of people’s everyday life. One of the most used services is e-mail, which is close to the number of social media users worldwide. According to the latest updated information, currently more than 5 billion people are connected to all social media including Facebook, Instagram, X etc.

According to experts, even in the age of social media, e-mail is the most powerful and profitable communication medium in the world. In the last two years, 11 crore people have joined electronic mail services. The study also found that 58 percent of users check their email before using social media or reading news.

According to DemandSage data, approximately 36.16 billion e-mails are exchanged every day around the world, an increase of 4.3 percent from the previous year. Of these, only Google’s Gmail is serving 1.8 billion users. Statistics also show that 99 percent of users check their inbox at least once a day. Some people open e-mail up to 20 times a day.

Author and expert Philip Inger said, ‘E-mail has been around for more than 50 years. Messages that used to be sent orally, faxed or handwritten are now exchanged primarily through e-mail. The advantage of e-mail is that it can be written clearly and quickly, it reaches one or more recipients at the same time and takes up less space than paper-based communication.’

According to them, the recipient can save the e-mail and the information contained in it in the folder of his choice. Over time this creates an easy-to-use and valuable repository of information.

It is recorded in history that the world’s first e-mail was sent in 1971. It was sent by American programmer Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson, working at the research firm Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) at the time, developed a program called ‘Send Message’ to send messages to different computers.

According to Philip Inger, Tomlinson was able to send the first e-mail between two computers via a three-meter long network cable. When sending e-mail, Tomlinson used the at-the-rate (@) sign between the username and the computer name to create recipient addresses. Due to this both parts of the address got separated. Tomlinson randomly chose the ‘@’ symbol. It was not used much at that time. But earlier e-mail addresses did not have extensions like dotcom or dotnet.

Experts say that with the increase in the use of smartphones, the use of e-mail has also increased rapidly. According to DemandSage data, 81 percent of users prefer using handheld smartphones to read and respond to e-mail.