This post should really be titled, “The Internet and I”. It has been a long ride; the Internet and I were both born in 1993, we grew up together.

The first encounter that I can remember between the Internet and I was when I was very small. We had a huge, chunky desktop computer sitting on the floor in a vacant room in our house and I would use it to play Pong. Then Mum said that we had a new-fangled thing and we dialed up and connected to the Internet.

It was extremely limited at the time. I can’t even remember what I accessed. Back then you consumed content from the Internet, you didn’t create it. It was too boring for me.

The next encounter that I recall was the exhilarating website, Neopets. It was also my first experience with social media. And this was where my obsession with the internet began. I was hooked from www dot.

Then there was, Myspace, a brief and embarrassing stint with Bebo and Wikipedia. Then I realized that I could actually learn something from the internet. I discovered blogs and followed link after link, saving pretty picture after picture through the shallow surfaces of the Internet.

And of course, there was the invention of Facebook. It changed everything, and developed at around the same time that the smart phone changed everything. Now everyone has a Facebook profile, I use it to keep in touch with my friends in India who can’t afford a phone.

The Internet is the future. It can’t be denied. But what exactly it will look like in the future no one can know. It, like me, has grown and changed and learned so much in the past 20 years of its life. I’m looking forward to the lessons in Network Media that might help me to keep up, I don’t want this magical and complicated thing called the Internet to out grow me.