The Internet.

We use it on a daily basis. We use it for emails, facebook-ing, porn, getting to know people, for downloading music and movies, research etc. Now as students of UB, we got to learn more about it. Hmmm. I wonder, is there actually such a need? I'm not saying that Mr Choy is a horrid lecturer. Hell no.

Perhaps we have gotten so used to it being part of our lives, we forget certain key points why we have it, why we use it, how we got it.

To me the internet came in when I was 12. Before that there was no such thing as MSN chats or ICQ. To me the computer was a huge white box that had a black screen with green text in it. Oh and I played Pac-man on those machines. That was about it. So when I was 12, my father brought home another similar machine. And I remembered everytime we used the internet, we couldn't use the telephone.

Today, 2010. We are able to make phone calls via our computer, purchase the latest Victoria's Secret lingerie or even make money by being a blogger online.

It has only been week 1 of my learning journey about the internet. And I reckon, this course is going to be somewhat like the study of Charles Darwin's human evolution but the internet style.

There is more to write as the semester progresses. I guess its about time to learn how to appreciate the internet for what it is.