Do you remember your first account of going online? I have a vague recollection of getting online back when it was mostly user groups and there were not any ‘pretty’ websites to browse. Yes, it was many many moons ago… and I didn’t understand how to use those archaic news groups or interested in learning to navigate. They seemed to be to news heavy and I didn’t see any groups that interested me.
Eventually, as you all know, the World Wide Web affectionately called the Internet for short became visually user friendly. My next online was with AOL and it was fine but expensive and it was more geared towards Community. I live in a rural area and grew up basically alone, no neighbors, or friends near by for that type of comradeship. A co-worker introduced me to Earthlink, remember rural area living, so we had to have dial-up and as those of you in neighborhoods got cable I did not. Yes, it was very slow using but not having used anything else at least I was online and had a browser, not a community, to just go where I wanted to go online.
The World was now available to this country gal and she surfed for hours at a time. Thank goodness for unlimited dial-up…
