- Electronic mail (email) predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating it.
- The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
- 35,000,000,000 e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
- There are about 1,4 billion registered e-mail addresses.
- Windows Live Hotmail is the world's largest web-based email service with nearly 364 million users (2010).
- 23 percent of spam servers are in the United States, 64 percent are in Taiwan
- The average business user spends 2.6 hours per day reading and responding to e-mail
- The time spent deleting SPAM costs U.S. businesses $21.6 billion annually.
- 34.1 percent of users open an e-mail by 5 pm
- Email click through ratio is best on Wednesdays, reaching 3.9%
- Email bombing is the intentional sending of large volumes of messages to a target address.
- 38 percent of US companies monitor and read emails written by employees.
Email quick facts
