I am amazed at the internet. When I was 10 years old I was crying to my mother about getting my own phone line. Of course I didn't get it until I was about 13 years old but the point is that I was in need of way to socialize with my friends other than the bus stop. Then came my nifty Hewlett Packard 486 SX equipped with a 25Mhz processor and a whopping 25MB hard drive. Not to mention it had a 2400 baud modem that could surf the internet at a blazing 2.4 Bytes/Sec. Yes..I said bytes! Once again, I begged my parents, only this time for the internet.
Prodigy was my first connection with the world wide web and through its 8-bit interface I happily and poorly surfed my way around. But on the horizon there was improved technology...an internet that was capable of 56k speeds and beyond. The dawn of the Instant messaging, IRC Chatting, Guestbook Signing age commenced. Geocities, webcrawler anyone? This was 1995 folk's, really not that long ago.
Now with broadband and a fairly cheap computer communication with my friends is easier and more instant than ever. The social graph has skyrocketed changing the way people think, buy, invest, learn, communicate, breathe! Ok maybe not breathe but you get the drift. The internet offers the world a turbo boost in communication especially with "Social Software". Facebook, myspace, typepad, flickr and many others are offering remarkable social products. API's are growing exponentially, language standards are becoming more solid and with a little time I might even see my grandma's facebook profile. The internet is amazing! We should all stop, take a deep breath, and appreciate this internet age that we live in because I know my life would suck without it.
