ten years.
I am talking about from 2000-2010.
We first got the internet at home in May 1997, I first used the internet in Jan 1996 on Netscape 2.1, Winsock DLL, Windows 3.1 and 8MB RAM!
By 2000 we still had dialup but by then I had wired up a network so the connection was shared, that was painfully slow but by then my mum was already doing a lot of stuff on line.
We got broadband in 2001.
From about 2003 onwards I don't think much has changed, a lot more services are online now, and we have on demand video but I think think social networks have changed things that much. Before facebook we all chatted via MSN and communicated by that.
I was very late getting my mobile, I bought it in 2000 after preasure from my mates. It was a Philips Savvy. Horrible thing. So in ten years my mobile has evolved from a mini brick with tiny screen to a hand held computer (Nokia N97 Mini).
Music wise I started downloading MP3s ilegally back in 1999 (took for ever on 56k) and used Spotify from the first day it came out in the UK. I am now a premium member.
The biggest change to me in the past year or so is that when I am now constantly on the internet. I am constantly attached to it. I am on it in my bath, in my sleep, on the bus, on the train. The only time I am not surfing the web is when I am on my bike, driving, in a pub, doing a job (but even then it involves the web) or on a dance floor.
It has got to the point where to live I need water, food, heating and then the internet.
My entire life has been based around computers and the internet (I even did at university). I just wish I was born a few years earlier so I got to see it elvolve more.
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