Ten years on the internet

As 2006 comes to an end, I am running out of time to say that I have been using the internet now for ten years. One of the first things I did, under the tutelage of sil, was to start writing my own pages, so I have been on the web for ten years too. I don’t know what editor I used to edit those pages, although I remember only ever using Lynx to browse them while still at university, only being introduced to flashy new browsers with pictures the following year when I started work. Sadly no record exists of it on the Wayback Machine. The earliest existing version of webpage I have written is from June 2001, although the July 2001 version is more comprehensible.* The current version, which is basically a fancy list of links for work, is not really too different.

My first email was to Tim and easily persuaded me of the advantages of electronic communication. From the university’s computer centre, I asked if he wanted to go for a drink. By chance he was also logged on somewhere in town and agreed. With little delay, therefore, we proceeded to the pub. In the days before mobile phones, this was something.

* Where it says Respect my authority! there should be an image of Cartman in policeman guise. The two words moo around the email address should have a little image of a cow similar to the icon you can see (hopefully) in the address bar above. I think the Cartoons image was a Dilbert image.