So gentlemen, we're going
to learn about email today.

Who knows how mail
used to be delivered?

Well, I saw an old
western movie on TV,

and saw they used to have
Pony Express riders that

delivered mail between towns.

And it took three to four
days between close towns

and three to four months
from New York to California.

Good.

I read in social studies how
Indians used to send messages

with smoke signals.

Was that the first use of
using the cloud for mail?

Umm, yes.

That was like the
cloud I suppose,

but you had to be sitting
at the top of a mountain

so you could see it.

Now you don't have to
have a mailman deliver it,

a Pony Express rider ride by, or
an Indian doing smoke signals.

Now we send it electronically.

That's why they call it email.

Oh, that makes sense.

For sure.

So why did they
call it snail mail,

and how did they ever text
each other in the old days?

Well, it was so slow,
they called it snail mail.

No one could text
each other, but they

did have telegraph
operators to send messages

as signals called Morse code
on wires along the railroads

between towns.

But they were lucky to
have one in each town not

for each person.

Who is Morse, and
what's his code name?

Great, Scott.

You've have to research that
later on Google, Willis.

Now let's go learn a little
bit more about email.