The Evolution of Email Throughout Time

E-mail or e-mail goes back to the 1965 catalog of a new computer system used at MIT long before the Internet actually exists. They built a machine called the "Compatible Time-Sharing System" and eventually was allowed to share and save files between college students and other registered users in the New England state. Students and teachers can log in to MIT's IBM 7094 computer and save the file (see Figure 1). I am here, the user creates a text file and named it "TO JOE" in the user directory so that I can see it the next time I log in.

I am a bit crazy about e-mail. Okay, more than one. It had grown for years, but I did not take any action. I know that I had wasted a lot of time while checking all the day or reading and sending mail. It goes without saying that all the interruptions that it is causing. These interruption had a serious impact on my productivity. This is something that can not be ignored any longer. I am not alone to solve this problem. In 2017, ordinary office worker received about 120 e-mails a day and sent about 40 e-mails a day. Suppose you spend only one minute per email, and it takes more than two and a half hours for the total number of emails per day. A more frightening thought is that 2018 e-mails are incremented by 20 every day. Therefore I took the bull's point of view and decided that it was time to find ways to improve my email habits.

For many years, when I get up in the morning I will force my e-mails to check my e-mail many times before going to bed and on that day. I do not have it anymore. I have greatly reduced the number of times I have seen my personal e-mail, and when it does this is strategic. For example, I did not check it in the morning before I started writing - this is the most productive part of my day. I can not deny that changing my e-mail program is the most difficult part to adapt to the digital minimum lifestyle. E-mail checking may become an addictive, unconscious custom, with television commercials waiting to ride your Lyft, scanning new mails while the store is waiting in line. To reduce the temptation, I confirmed that my phone was not visible when the warning was turned off and that my email browser was closed when I was writing. Fortunately, I learned that the impulse to check my e-mail was greatly alleviated.