Online Communities :: Internet Technology Computers Papers

Online CommunitiesThe Internet...the most exciting, mysterious and phenomenal form of communication to date. It allows state to enter a world where they can explore uttermost glowering places they would not dare to venture into in the tangible world. It gives people the luck to communicate with other human beings from all over the world employ nothing but a keyboard. It is an information highway, a place where research can be gathered on any topic fit of entering into the imagination. My exposure to the world of Cyberspace began six years past when I entered college at California State University, Chico. I obtained a school-based netmail account. In addition to writing to friends at other colleges, I was capable to chat with other people on campus using a talk of the town command. Throughout my deuce-year experience at Chico, I never ventured far out of the school-based e-mail system and never once went surfing on the net. It wasnt until I transferred to California State Uni versity, Northridge that I began my exploration of the Internet. Since I was commuting from home where I had a computer with no modem, it was at the school library where I did my e-mail. It was on these library computers that I became jazzn with the Internet. I was now exposed to a whole new position of being online. I began using the Internet to research topics for both(prenominal) written document and recreation. In fact, when I moved back home and started going to CSUN, I became very involved in swing dancing. I wanted to know the where, when and how of the swing dancing scene in Los Angeles. The Internet became my source of information. I became part of an online club of swing dancers. I joined a meeting place where people gathered to post announcements and talk about nothing more(prenominal) than swing dancing. The Internet provided me the opportunity to get hooked into the dancing community via an online community. After the first couple of years at CSUN, upon my graduat ion in Deaf Studies, I obtained a personal computer with a modem and sign up for America Online. I was now able to have both e-mail and access to the Internet from the comfort of my own home. And now, for the last two years, I have been using this AOL account almost exclusively for e-mail. I never use the Internet unless absolutely necessary and find myself acquiring impatient and agitated when I cant find what I am looking for or when I come to a entomb saying Page Not Found.