Create Email in Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo

A guide to creating email on the most popular services: gmail, hotmail, yahoo.

"Write your email address here." So you don't feel bad about not having an email, choose one of the most popular services and follow our step-by-step instructions to get your own.

If you have started reading this text and are interested in what follows, it means that you have probably not yet created an email, your own personal email. So, you may need a brief definition.

Contents:

• Create Gmail
• Hotmail (Outlook) dementia
• Create Yahoo

What is email?

In the digital age, letters have completely disappeared and only bills arrive in the postbox to be paid. But even these are tending to disappear, as it is now possible to send them electronically. Plus, having email is one of the first things to do once you have a computer or smartphone. Even subscribing to social media and online platforms requires having an email. So, email is something of a necessary evil, a necessary skill in the electronic world.

Ducky and Imale (email)

Email, or electronic mail, is an online service that allows you to write, send, receive and store messages over the internet. Like the conventional "letter", we need an address for the sender and for the recipient. The address is divided in the middle by @, the symbol we call "ducky" in Greek, to distinguish the recipient's "username" from the email service.

Opening a parenthesis and diving into the past, in 1972, Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, sent the first email with the @ symbol to indicate the location of the recipient, because until then emails were sent to users using the same computer.

Time to create an email

So it's time to get started on creating your own email.

There are many email services, but three are the most popular: Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo. Below, we detail all the necessary steps to create an email in Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. At the end of the text, you will also find a comparison table, with the main features of the three services.

 Create Gmail

Gmail, also known as Google Mail, is a web-based email service from Google, which was first introduced in April 2004 and was invitation-only. It became available to the general public in February 2007. If you do a little research among your friends in relation to email creation, most of them will tell you that they already have a Gmail account.

Why Gmail?

Gmail is not only simple, but also very smart. It offers 15GB of free storage and in addition to sending and receiving emails, you can have a video chat with a friend or call someone via Google Voice. Also, with your account, you simultaneously log in to other Google services like YouTube, Drive, Blogger, Docs, etc. You can also attach files up to 25 MB, and for larger files a link to Google Drive is automatically attached. There is of course an iOS and Android app, so you can access your emails from your mobile phone. Creating emails in Gmail is very easy.

Gmail Creation Steps

To sign up for Gmail, you will need to go through the Gmail creation process.

To create a gmail account, tap here.

Fill in your details in the form.

You will need to choose a name for your email and a password for each time you attempt a gmail login.

If you don't have another email, you don't need to enter one in the "Your current email address" field.

Then, agree to the terms of service, and if you wish, it is advisable to click on "More options" in order to customize what information you want to be published and kept from your searches, your history, etc.

In less than a minute, you have your new address and can do a gmail login.

Tap the dotted icon and select Gmail.

Create Hotmail (Outlook)

Hotmail or Windows Live Hotmail or Outlook.com is a free email service from Microsoft, as part of Windows Live. It is one of the first web-based email services, dating back to 1996. Today it has 400 million members worldwide.

Why Hotmail?

A Hotmail account helps you find and organise your emails quickly and allows you to send files up to 10 MB. Storage space is now unlimited. Setting up hotmail won't take you more than a minute.

Steps to create Hotmail email (Outlook)

Click on here to create hotmail.

At this point you will decide the email address, by writing the name you want, and then put a ducktail (@), and one of the suffixes hotmail.com, outlook.com ή outlook.com.gr. There will be no practical difference in your account and its features, whichever one you choose.

Then, you choose your password.

Here you put "First name" and "Last name". You can also enter a pseudonym if you do not want to enter your real name. Then select "Next".

At this point you put your birth data as well as your country, and select "Next".

Type in the CAPTCHA to make sure Microsoft knows you're not a robot, then click "Next".

Now your hotmail account has been created.

Visit the homepage and log in with your details to your brand new Hotmail account.

Yahoo email creation steps

Yahoo mail was one of the first Internet companies to engage in email services, starting in 1996.

Why Yahoo?

It has unlimited storage space and integrates email, instant messaging, social networks and SMS text messages in one place. Creating email on Yahoo requires sending a code to the mobile phone for verification.

Create Yahoo email

Go to here to create a Yahoo mail. 

Go to the top right, where it says Entrance and Post Office. Press one of them. You will be taken to the same page.

Click on Create an Account.

On the next page, fill in your details as well as your username and password. You will also need to fill in your mobile number, your date of birth and your gender. Then, select "Continue".

Immediately afterwards, you will need to receive a confirmation code to the mobile phone number you provided in the previous step. Check the blue box that says "Send me an account key via". Immediately after, you will be presented with a window where you will enter the four-digit code you received on your mobile phone.

After entering the password, you will see the following message. Select "Let's get started" where you will be taken to the main Yahoo page from which you will be able to sign in to your new Yahoo mail.

Comparative table

General advice

When you fill in your personal details, such as your name, birthday and gender, it is not necessary to give your real details. However, if you decide to enter other than the real ones, you should write them down somewhere so that you can remember them.

After you have created your email, before you start sending and receiving emails, go to the settings of the service you have chosen to differentiate the ones you are interested in.

If you think you'll forget them, write down your password and username in a notebook. Do not trust your password to anyone.

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