How My Internet Evolved...

Today marks the first day that I'm connected via wireless to the Internet (well, at home because I first surfed wirelessly in our school)

The first time I was connected to it was February 14, 2002, I vividly remember. Those days were "dial-up days", and I was really excited because I get so many information from the Internet. Even though speed was literally crawling, and even if I had to wait for 2 minutes before the whole of Yahoo's home page loaded, I glued my eyes on the monitor. Being connected to the Internet changed the way that I live for the past 15 years or so. Since then, projects, homeworks and research were more dependent on it than books or materials. Of course, I still do research by encyclopedias and reference books, but when I met Wikipedia and Google, things changed radically. The "copy-and-paste" generation in me had to follow the trend.

E-mail and instant messaging also revolutionized how I communicated with my friends and colleagues. Where before, we had to get together to exchange pleasantries, now I simply go to my computer and open up Friendster, or Yahoo! Mail, and boom, I'm connected, no fuss or hassle in having to meet them in some place. Even friends who were abroad were instantly connected and we were exchanging what-have-yous in seconds.

Then, time passed and technology evolved, and there was DSL. I knew I had to avail of this technology to be better-equipped and so, after 4 years of dial-up, we switched to the new one. Imagine unlimited and fast Internet for about 30 pesos a day? How better could it get? Or so I thought.

When I entered college, things looked up anew and we were caught unaware of the technology called WiFi. It made dial-up look like a grain of sand in a beach. This meant a more mobile means of communication because wires were completely eradicated and radio waves became the norm for most people, especially those with laptops. This urged me to buy a notebook computer from which I was able to do homework and keep in touch with other people as well. Wireless Internet is basically widespread around campus so connecting to it was a cinch. Since then, I never looked back.

And now, as I type this, I am surfing the Net in our terrace via the wireless connection from the router that we bought a few days ago. Woohoo!
From being tangled in wires and crawling Internet to completely breaking free and blaring speeds. That's quite a fast development in a matter of four years.

And so, that's how my Internet evolved!