The WWW is very anonymous. If I hadn't used my real name in my email address there is no way you could tell who I am.
Thw WWW is anonymous if you are worried about being tracked down by a computer illiterate 10 year old. If you are worried about someone more sophisticated than that then the WWW is most certainly not anonymous by almost any definition of the word.
By looking at the headers of your email I could find the IP address of your computer, as could the operator of any website you visit. Given that IP address, it is relatively trivial to find your location (do a Google search for "IP address location"). If I had the resources of a moderately sized corporation, I could also correlate your IP addresses with one of the many many websites that you have given your name to and find out all sorts of other things about you.
Ian.
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