Internet and me

Computer is part of my life, and Internet is part of computer’s life, hence Internet is part of my life too.

I started to use Internet in year 2000, a millennium year while the Internet age was still young. I subscribed TMnet, a 56K dialup Internet Service 2 months after I own my first computer. That time, I still know no anything about Internet. The only websites that I familiar are like Yahoo, MSN, TMnet Portal, Microsoft.com, Sinchew-I, that’s all. I don’t even know what is search engine. Therefore, I just referring to the newspaper or magazine and look for the web address, and visit.

I forgot since when I started to utilize the search engine, I think is since the need of finding online java and shockwave games. I like to play games, and Internet is the direct source of the games. Later then I know the use of the search engine. The first web search engine that I use is Yahoo, so I set it as my homepage.

That time, the web contents did not as rich as today’s web content. Today’s web contents are full of graphics, animation, interactive contents, social network, and videos, while the web content is the early years are online words, low quality images, simple GIF animation, that’s all. This is because the Internet speed on that time was slow, and every second it loads is accumulated in the telephone bill.

Since I have a slow dialup connection, therefore, I changed my default search engine and homepage into Google. Google is a simple and clean web search engine and speed up my web browser startup time. But, the most important is the relevance of the search result is high, so I like it.

Few years before the Blogger was become popular, not everyone could able to have a website which can write, post and share information and photos easily. However, since I bought a reference book “Learn Internet Within 24 Hours”, I learnt to build my first website, using Yahoo Geocities (Geocities had already close). I posted my photos, and write some info about me. I learnt HTML coding too, using Notepad.

Dialup Internet charges every second of online connection, therefore I seldom online. About once a week only.However, most of my computer knowledge is come from Internet. Before I have broadband, I usually stay in my secondary school just to online and download software, songs, videos,etc. Until the year 2009, my parents finally understand the need of faster Internet connectivity, so final subscribed the Streamyx broadband service.

Since the first day I online, I downloaded thousands of software, hundreds of songs, read uncountable pages of web articles, and these greatly improve my knowledge. I was addicted to Internet too. Now, if there is no Internet, computer will seems useless to me.