The internet as it is now is SO different from how it was when I first started using it. When I first began to explore the internet during the summer of 1996 and 1997, I didn’t do much besides find informative articles on hunting, animal rights, the dangers of box cutter, and so on and so forth for various school projects, and photos of my celebrity crushes at that time (I’ll spare myself the embarrassment by not naming them).
In the summer of 1998, when my mother bought our first computer, I was immediately hooked on the internet and all that it had to offer. I would download songs in .wav format, and since I was on a 26.4kbps dial-up connection, one song would take at least 45 minutes, but it was SO worth it. I was also a fan of chatrooms, and it wasn’t long after that when I discovered ICQ.
In 2000, when I had my own computer (thank you Dan!) and designing websites was as important as having oxygen to breathe, the online circles I hung out in were all about fanlistings, hatelistings (anyone remember thehatelistings.org? I owned and maintained that site with the help of a few friends!), link exchanges and affiliates, and eventually plugboards.
And let’s not forget the layouts… swirls, grunge patterns, paint splatters, and plenty of celebrity layouts!
Now? Everything is about social networking and integration. I feel so integrated with the internet, that it’s sometimes hard to separation what’s offline from what’s online. And in some ways, I think that’s rather scary. :/
What are your thoughts? How has the internet evolved for you?
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Charity
The internet has evolved pretty much the same for me, with the exception of the fact that now, if you don’t have at least a MySpace or Facebook account, a blog on LiveJournal, or your own website with domain, you’re nothing. I see teenagers with domain names and paid hosting, when if that stuff had been around when I was their age, I would most certainly not have gotten!