It’s kind of sad, but i can always pinpoint the general time period where I first started using the internet. It was August 1998, right before school. I soon switched from Internet Explorer to Netscape and it was around that time that i managed to secure some web space on a friend’s account (hi ben :P), and started working on my own web pages.
It was in the early 1990s that the internet started to creep into our lives and became the place where many of us live out a significant portion of our existence. For a long time i kinda felt cheated — What i would have done to have the Internet when i was in middle or high school. I had always felt rather isolated living and working where i did and the internet gave me a kind of social life that i’d never really had before. (more…)