Comments on: Do you remember your first time online? http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/01/20/45 A weblog on early modern culture, teaching English literature, and what else comes to mind Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: kristine http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/01/20/45/comment-page-1#comment-108 kristine Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:13:37 +0000 http://earmarks.org/?p=45#comment-108 Thanks, Sharon! It's good to know that I'm not alone in missing an epiphanous moment of first encountering the internet. It must have been a slow introduction, rather than a sudden submersion in the online world in those years. I did find a <a href="http://www.designtimeline.org/cgi-bin/archive/timeline.cgi?q=6" target="new">site where people registered their memories of their first online experience</a> -- some people do seem to have a rather distinct remembrance of the moment... I envy them. Thanks, Sharon! It’s good to know that I’m not alone in missing an epiphanous moment of first encountering the internet. It must have been a slow introduction, rather than a sudden submersion in the online world in those years. I did find a site where people registered their memories of their first online experience — some people do seem to have a rather distinct remembrance of the moment… I envy them.

]]> By: Sharon http://earmarks.org/archives/2006/01/20/45/comment-page-1#comment-107 Sharon Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:48:37 +0000 http://earmarks.org/?p=45#comment-107 I don't remember exactly either. But I think it must have been in 1995 in my first year at university too. (I'm pretty sure that the computers at my college in 1994/5 didn't have internet connections...) But I can remember the dingy old computer rooms with their SLOOOOWWWW computers. You just spent hours waiting for pages to load. So it was really a couple of years and somenetwork hardware upgrades later before my internet use started to take off. However, I can distinctly remember getting my first junk email in third year. It was just an advertising spiel from a real company, and I sent them this sharp 'what are you doing sending me this I don't want this kind of junk' reply - which they anwered really politely and just took me off their address list. Ah, innocent days... I don’t remember exactly either. But I think it must have been in 1995 in my first year at university too. (I’m pretty sure that the computers at my college in 1994/5 didn’t have internet connections…) But I can remember the dingy old computer rooms with their SLOOOOWWWW computers. You just spent hours waiting for pages to load. So it was really a couple of years and somenetwork hardware upgrades later before my internet use started to take off.

However, I can distinctly remember getting my first junk email in third year. It was just an advertising spiel from a real company, and I sent them this sharp ‘what are you doing sending me this I don’t want this kind of junk’ reply - which they anwered really politely and just took me off their address list. Ah, innocent days…

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