Today the world celebrates the ONE WEB DAY , in this day every one tells about how could internet changed his life , and about the difference between internet now and before , at the middle 90's
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I was living in Edgewood, New Mexico, in the fall of 1996 when I first encountered the internet. America Online had just started sending out those strange little disks all over the country, and I was the only person I knew who had an e-mail account.
The local library in Edgewood, which was then located in the strip mall on Old Route 66 next to the Radio Shack, had recently picked up a few computers and internet access. It was limited to only an hour, but that was a discretionary decision by the librarian. Most folks in the area had not heard of the internet or the World Wide Web, so I pretty much had free reign on the computers.
The very first thing I did on the net was to head over to this small website called Hotmail. They were giving away e-mail addresses for free, and at the time, the only way you could get an e-mail address was to purchase internet service, which was still prohibitively expensive in the East Mountains. So I found myself at the library most nights, checking to see if I had received any e-mail (usually not) and trying out all the cool stuff that I had only heard about from tech magazines. I must have signed up for at least a dozen free e-mail addresses, most of which I never used.
The web was painfully slow and very text-heavy. Most websites looked like a dressed-down Wikipedia, and most of them didn’t have the information I was looking for. Graphics were incredibly rare, as they clogged bandwidth on a 14.4K modem. And don’t ask about audio file sharing, let alone viewing videos on the net.
And now, as I sit here in Orange County, California, ten years later, I have a blog with podcasts that I send over my cell phone, embedded streaming video from YouTube, and lots and lots of pictures, most of which I’ve taken with my digital camera. I talk with people from all over the world via e-mail. I buy movies, books and music online. I can locate any spot on the globe and tell you how to get there. And now there is some term called “information overload”, which means that I can find just about anything worth looking for on the web.
And I still have the Hotmail address. You never know who might try to e-mail you.
Today is OneWebDay, a day to celebrate all of the wonderful people who make the web a nice place to be.
I can’t wait to see what happens on the web in the next ten years.
