Well I am feeling overwhelmed yet again. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of the ‘basics’ of the internet but there is so much more to it. The snooping activity this week was a bit of fun but for me I most enjoyed reading about each persons earliest memory of the internet, and I don’t think this was even part of the course requirements, just a pondering question posed by another student that got us all reminicising....
“My earliest internet memory is during primary school when all my friends started to get computers at home, we couldn’t afford one so I really felt out of place. I must have only been in Year 6 and I remember everyone talking about ‘chat rooms’ and whisperings of lets ‘chat online’ tonight. Anybody who was anyone was chatting on line after school and if you weren’t doing it you were no longer cool. I remember all the kids who ‘chatted’ online kind of formed this special bond that none of us face to face chatters could penetrate. I was invited over to my friends house one Saturday after her family picked up a computer and got ‘dial-up’ internet. We were so excited to be using chatrooms and suddenly we were cool again”.
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