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This has occurred to me many times, but I guess I will talk a little about it now. I find it funny how things have progressed over the years concerning communication over the internet.
We first got a computer and internet at my house during my middle and high school years. The computer was mainly just for fun, like playing games. Then, when we installed the internet, the computer took on a whole new meaning. I could communicate to friends with out using the house phone! So cool right?! Instant messenger was the hotness. I used to stay up late and talk to friends on the PC.
AOL was where it was at. I remember AOL 3.0, 4.0, and for some reason 5.0 really stands out as a big update, but I don’t recall what was so special about it. 6.0 was apparently good too. I do remember though, having to change my IM name when we got rid of AOL. At that time, you couldn’t take your name with you. I lost my original Mario – something name that I don’t remember, but I know I was 14 when we moved off of AOL.
During undergrad, blogs became more popular, or at least more popular in my world. I used to blog about all kinds of things. This is before the idea of FB and twitter, where we could instantly “blog” about what we were doing or thinking. Facebook finally came to campus fall of my junior year. It was so exciting because I read about facebook long before that and they were rolling it out on certain campuses around the country. It was so neat and way better than myspace, which had become a haven for horrible web pages with grotesque backgrounds and font that was unreadable. Silly myspace.
So today, we micro blog using twitter, facebook, 4square, and other services. I wish I had joined twitter back in ’06 when I first read about it, I might have been able to get a cool 4 or 5 digit name. Oh well :p Pretty soon, we will always know where everyone is, if they so choose it. We’re going to start getting ads on the radio and phones based on our current location. I get excited thinking about what new technologies and internet uses that will come out over the next five years.
