I can still remember the novelty and excitement of writing email messages back in the earliest days of the Internet. At that time – around the early 1990s – the act of dialing up and connecting via a cumbersome modem, logging into an email provider, writing a message and sending it on its way could hardly have been called “easy.” The potential was there, of course, but the actual execution left a whole lot to be desired. Flash forward to today – my entire email history, my contacts, my calender and all of my data is now carried effortlessly in my pocket – and it’s hard to believe that email used to be such a pain. How did I get from there to here? The answer lies in the evolution of email use, mobile email – and the modern Hosted Exchange platform.
A Mess Of Email Addresses
Early on, I gave little thought or consideration about the email address that I created. AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy were the big names in the email game back then, and I hardly knew anyone that used email regularly anyway. As the popularity of the Internet picked up, though, a slew of free email providers cropped up. Suddenly, everyone and his brother had an email address or ten. Like so many other people, I haphazardly signed up for email accounts with dozens of different services – Hotmail and Yahoo were two biggies.
As can be expected – and hindsight really is 20/20 in this case – I wound up with a confusing jumble of email addresses. My grandma would email me at one address, my friends at another. I provided an entirely different – and more professionally named – email address for business and school contacts as well. When I needed to track down an important email message, it could take an entire afternoon. The Internet and email were supposed to simplify my life – so why did it seem even more complex than ever?
Enter The Mobile Revolution
Just as email and the Internet really started coming into their own, mobile phones and devices were taking off. Like any other tech junkie, I always had my hands on the hottest new devices. Almost immediately, the promise of mobility was being bandied about by top providers – but the technology was sorely lacking at first. The first time I was able to sign into one of my email addresses, it truly was more trouble than it was worth. The problem was clear: Mobile technology had to find a way to make email consolidation a breeze. The question, though, was how exactly would that happen?
mail2web to the Rescue
Over time, ActiveSync and other new forms of technology popped up that proposed solutions for the utter disarray that characterized so many people’s email situation. Email mobility became more user friendly, but I was tired of dealing with the headache of setting up the proper configuration to make my email mesh with my mobile device time and time again. Syncing and configuring even the most up-to-date devices and software was a veritable nightmare, but I was just as tired of running to the office repeatedly to track down the data that I needed. I knew there had to be an easier way, and there was: mail2web.com Mobile Email.
Finally, Configuring and Synchronizing a Mobile Device is as Easy as 1-2-3
Needless to say, I was a bit skeptical when I first tried out mail2web Mobile Email. After all, I’d been around since the bad old days of early email, and I was used to coping with major headaches when it came to attempting to achieve email mobility. Imagine my surprise – glee is more like it – when my mobile device was instantly and painlessly synced with ActiveSync and mail2web Hosted Exchange Mobile Email. In seconds, everything was up and running seamlessly; I had to rub my eyes to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming!
Today, Everything I Need is in My Pocket
Nowadays, I carry my entire online life around with me in my pocket. Hosted Exchange and mail2web.com have eliminated the nastiness of constant configuration trouble and other aggravating problems that previously underwrote mobility and office data like calendar and contacts. Whether I need to look up an email that I received in the last week – or the last decade – I can do it in seconds via mobile email on nearly any smartphone device, not to mention any contact is at my fingertips for not only email, but my phone book too. It’s hard to remember the dark ages of dialing up and waiting endlessly just to get online, when I’m constantly connected today. Finally, the potential of mobile email and data management has been realized with the intuitive and user-friendly capabilities of mail2web.com Mobile Email.
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this might be off topic, but where was that photo of the 2 mannequins in the hot air balloon taken?