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August 11 2005
Everything has changed, nothing has changed
It is 10 years since the Internet became a subject of mass interest, rather than some arcane communications thingy for academics and spies, and there is a good article in the Belfast Telegraph giving a potted history of progress since then.
It is also just over 10 years since I went online and although that particular addition to the world of the web doesn't merit a mention in the history of the medium it certainly was an auspicious event in my life.
It wasn't easy either, it took about 6 hours to set up an extremely dodgy connection with IEunet via a cutting edge 14.4Kbs external modem before I was launched onto the "Information Superhighway", as the internet was frequently, and rather quaintly, referred to then. Oh the wonder of it all!
Later that year I made my first online hotel reservation. This was something of a low tech affair, none of that fancy checking availability in real time or paying online, oh no, I just filled in a form at the website of an evidently very cutting edge hotel in Amsterdam and waited for them to email me back.
But some things don't change. One of the very first emails I received told me "you have to see this" and provided a link to "an hilarious website".
It was funny and I just searched Google and, amazingly, it's still around! And still funny too.
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