Over the years I have dabbled with EBay, various online forums, and a mind boggling amount of websites that I find too insignificant to talk about. I have learnt how to make the net serve me the best it could. I have a huge favourites list that would make one think that it’s almost endless. My huge learning curve in taming the wild beast hasn’t come without a price. I have reformatted my computers hard disk drives countless times due to viruses, I have lost all of my computers saved content no less than six times in four years, meaning that I had to start from scratch each time! I have had to install more drives (currently operating five hard drives at over two terabytes), as I needed to expand more storage space! I have spent a fortune trying to get the best Internet connection, and I have met people through the Internet that I sometimes wish I had never met in the first place, but all in all, the pros by far outweigh the cons!

I have met a huge amount of amazing, intelligent people who have helped shape me into a better man. I have learnt how to manage time better, write efficiently, research efficiently, and communicate to a far greater extent. I have learnt huge amounts of information and have consumed more written text on the computer screen than I ever will in its paper form. I have developed a direct bond to my net connection and without it I’d feel claustrophobic and locked up. I have met some interesting girls after having talked to them online. I have learnt what long distance relationships are all about, and how stressful it is meeting people I had conversed with on the net, only to find them to be nothing like what I had imagined online! Despite all of the shocks, thrills, surprises, experiences, emotions, knowledge and skill that I had become accustomed to after four years in cyber space, I’m still learning, and still getting used to the World Wide Web!

The Internet has become a part of my life, and I can see it being a part of my life until the end of my days. I’d like to see Internet as a free service, and have our primitive Internet infrastructure overhauled and replaced with a much faster Internet service! I’m sure the Internet will become so huge that it will eventually swallow up all media, even run the corrupt media out of business, but for now the net is still in its infancy, and it will grow as radio has developed in the last century! I believe the Internet to be the third most important scientific development over the last 150 years, following alternating current, and the combustion engine. I’m finally now beginning to break into the online writing world, how successful ill be? It remains to be seen. How useful will the Internet ultimately prove itself to be in my life? Time will tell! But one thing’s for sure it has improved life for everyone that uses it, it is a definite technological step forward, and even a much needed step forward for our collective human civilisation. Thanks for reading.