So, I think u have read the Part-I of my blog, i.e. ‘MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE COMPUTER.’ Even if u have not read it, there is no problem, but would request you to read the first part and post some comments.
It had been now more than 2 years that I had met a ‘Computer’ and was quite at home with it, but had never used the Internet. I had only heard that there is something where you can get all types of information on just anything. I had heard from some of my friends and on the T.V. ads that there were something called websites that you need to access and only knew the name of only one website i.e. www.cartoonnetworkindia.com. This was just my condition when I encountered the Internet, now to start with what happened.
A friend of my father had called me to his home for something on the computer, as I knew how to do it. I went to his house. After I had done the work, he told me wait for sometime, so I was waiting as he was doing something on his PC. Then he said that he was now going to be connected to the Internet. I got excited on this and asked him if he could teach me a bit. He agreed and was now connected. Obviously, in those days the connection was very slow. He opened the Internet Explorer, something very exciting for me and typed www.timesofindia.com or something like that in the address bar, and went to the other room for some work, saying that it would take time to load. I was looking at the screen excitedly, but nothing was happening, so getting fed up, I changed the url to the only one I knew, but being in a hurry, I mis-typed the url, which was now not loading. At this time he returned back and seeing that nothing had loaded yet, check the address and asked me if I had changed it. I told him, yes and that nothing was happening so I did it. He checked, if it was connected and after verifying he logged on to Yahoo! Messenger and started to chat with some friend of his, who gave the IMvironment as the falling hearts and then gave him a “BUZZ” which was as u know a kiss. He started to laugh and said, look he is giving a kiss and then he too gave him a ‘buzz’. Just then there was a power cut and ended the session.
After many, many months of this incident, one day a friend of mine and me, decided to go to the nearest café, to do something online. He asked me, if I knew how to use the internet, I told him no, but he said, o.k. we’ll see. And so, we went, We sat at the computer, I was waiting for sometime for the owner to come and connect the computer to the internet as I had seen being done by the person. But my friend said, he must have already done. I told him, o.k. let us see. I clicked on the Internet Explorer and entered a url i.e. www.yahoo.com as I had heard from some friends and waited for it to load, and then saw that there was the same Yahoo! Messenger icon. I clicked on it, and saw a button “Get a New Yahoo! Id”, I clicked on it and a webpage opened with a form. Now we both, putting all our brains started filling the form. After filling everything, we saw that there was a option for an existing e-mail id, and none of us had that and also some other options I don’t remember now, were not filled by us. We tackled our brains for about two hours, but were not successful in achieving any fruitful result. So, just left after sometime.
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