Technology in my Childhood

Throughout my childhood there was a computer in my home, and at the elementary school I attended there was a class on computer use, but I did not use the internet until I was in high school. The internet was used mainly for research, and downloading music in my house. There was very little surfing the net, or just idly playing around on the computer. Everyone in the house used the internet just some more than others.

My earliest memory of the web was downloading music to a free program off the web and feeling really excited about the whole process. I was around 10 years old and thought that it was incredible that the internet could be used to find and get music for free.

I use the web mainly for keeping in contact with friends and family, but I also use it to look up information, or to just see interesting things. I enjoy the web but I would not say that I love it.

I have facebook and myspace and I use them everyday. On an average day I will spend about 2-3 hours all together looking around, and about 1/2 of that is spent typing messages or emails or something along those lines.