Internet. What's the first thought that comes to your mind? Email, Facebook, Entertainment, Timepass, Waste!?!?!
For me I become curious or my body become more of a positive jittery. Am born in 81 so internet came to my life very late. That time was around 1999 when this whole revolution was starting. There was no google or wikipedia and what I remember was using Exite.com, Aol, Hotmail/MSN, Yahoo. There was no major search engines except for something like Genie, Razor Search. Neither there was any social networking website. Alumni.net, Batchmates.com were some where we added and registered ourselves so that our lost friends can find us.
No wonder internet is addictive and this starts with Yahoo Messenger and it's various Group services. Now since India was experiencing Internet that period so very less people were aware of what else we can do over the internet. Yahoo provided a one stop shop for all users from email, chatting, news, movie reviews etc. Gradually hotmail also threw in good services with Security as their motto.
For small towns, Cyber Cafes stretched their arms and started tapping kids and teens. Small town Cafes used to charge Rs 50 and above per hour without any backup which means all were dependent upon electricity and yeah a dial up modem. When someone connected the modem it had a very detoriating buzz sound and as the buzz changes the internet gets connected. BSNL was the main player followed by Satyam Online which ofcourse changed into Sify.
In bigger cities, Cyber Cafes adthered to their name and introduced foodies, drinks and living upto the Cafe name. In Delhi some cafes introduced discount cards for regular customers and also gifted them. Money poured in for these small and big city cafes.
Though education wise or knowledge wise I feel internet was least effective as compared to what it is now. Email was the only communicative use the internet served as apart from surfing, reading news or chatting.
For me internet though was a timepass for me initially but I wanted to make use of it by doing something creative. I lived in a boy's PG in South Ex-II and apart from studies any other source of entertainment were not very entertaining. So I decided to make a website. Yes, I had done a one year Aptech course after my 12th and knew a bit of html. Now without having any idea of domains or hosting I searched the web and came across Yahoo Geocities. This web application was a messiah in disguise. They have easy tools to make free website and the user id serves as a unique name after their domain name. So mine was www.geocities.com/partha_scorpion. Weird name right. So I prepared my website without any guidelines and there were pages like
Today Geocities have no existence as Yahoo closed it down few years back. The bits of my broken page can be found in http://www.geocities.ws/partha_scorpion/index-2.html
Tremendous change came later when people transformed their BSNL lines to internet lines and how BSNL marketed their plans in the local dailies. It was more of a push medium where people were skeptical about the whole use of internet in their daily lives and giants like BSNL advertised in newspapers. Now Indians always have this never fading special feeling for BSNL, MTNL, TATA, Electricity Board etc. Now when they advertised something, even if it's a piece of rock.. people would storm in their offices to buy one and here internet connection was no different. I remember when TATA Indica was introduced in 1998 people in small towns had gone crazy. They visualized that future taxi as Indian BMW! Pre-Bookings, Diwali & Puja offers and what freaking not. All I saw few months later that Indica sounded like a tractor and people regretting their buy. Same happened for BSNL as well.
BSNL had and still have a very very poor after sales service. Means.. after you purchase any service from BSNL you are trapped. If that thing dont work BSNL guys won't even come to your home to rectify. Places where there were frequent thunder storms and rains or places were there were frequent wire cuts due to storms were worst effected. Your phone lines dead and so is your internet. They provide outdated modems that time Dial Ups and not ADSL .. or whatever. There can be millions of reasons why a BSNL internet is down and without any proper rectification.
Gradually many computer hardware companies tied up with some ISP (Internet Service Providers) so when anyone buys a PC they get internet connection free for a year. Amazing right! Thankfully my folks back home were not that technologically conscious and they never foresighted the need of a PC at our home.
Today when I see the transformation I feel amazing. Today I got a 2MBps Airtel connection at home, a 3G Vodafone network for my smartphone, a 3MBps TATA Photon Data Card and yes again an dual Airtel 2MBps leased line at my office. I pay my internet, phone bills online. I recharge my mom's TATA Sky and also book movie tickets, buy books and clothes.. all online. Wikipedia & Google became a major source of knowledge while Gmail became a one stop solution for emails, calenders, tasks etc. No wonder what Facebook means to the world today.
I'd also like to mention those website transformation like Indiatimes.com popped up one day and like Yahoo also showcased a huge load of services, but for Indians. So did rediff transformed and also introduced a messenger service called Rediff Bol with a red parrot. I could never run that application without shutting it down from the task menu (Ctrl+Alt+Del). I just hate Rediff Bol. Sify too came with amazing services not only online but also they opened up membership cafes arcoss India with economy rates and good speed.
I took my first PC in 2004 which was gifted by Mom at Delhi. My younger brother & me without any guidance land up in Nehru Place to buy a PC. If I think of that situation I don't believe myself today. So we buy a branded PC named Xenitis by some Kolkatta based IT firm. Now, in Munirka, where I was staying at that time, the only ISP available was Sify. The starting plan was 64KBps and with a download speed of 8kbps so ideally that speed was of no use to download. All we did was surf the internet. Later we migrated our plan to 128KBps as 256KBps (Broadband) was too expensive that time. I still remember running my PC overnights just to download a song, movie, game etc.
This technology transformation of Internet smells so good and I wonder .. what's next?
For me I become curious or my body become more of a positive jittery. Am born in 81 so internet came to my life very late. That time was around 1999 when this whole revolution was starting. There was no google or wikipedia and what I remember was using Exite.com, Aol, Hotmail/MSN, Yahoo. There was no major search engines except for something like Genie, Razor Search. Neither there was any social networking website. Alumni.net, Batchmates.com were some where we added and registered ourselves so that our lost friends can find us.
No wonder internet is addictive and this starts with Yahoo Messenger and it's various Group services. Now since India was experiencing Internet that period so very less people were aware of what else we can do over the internet. Yahoo provided a one stop shop for all users from email, chatting, news, movie reviews etc. Gradually hotmail also threw in good services with Security as their motto.
For small towns, Cyber Cafes stretched their arms and started tapping kids and teens. Small town Cafes used to charge Rs 50 and above per hour without any backup which means all were dependent upon electricity and yeah a dial up modem. When someone connected the modem it had a very detoriating buzz sound and as the buzz changes the internet gets connected. BSNL was the main player followed by Satyam Online which ofcourse changed into Sify.
In bigger cities, Cyber Cafes adthered to their name and introduced foodies, drinks and living upto the Cafe name. In Delhi some cafes introduced discount cards for regular customers and also gifted them. Money poured in for these small and big city cafes.
Though education wise or knowledge wise I feel internet was least effective as compared to what it is now. Email was the only communicative use the internet served as apart from surfing, reading news or chatting.
For me internet though was a timepass for me initially but I wanted to make use of it by doing something creative. I lived in a boy's PG in South Ex-II and apart from studies any other source of entertainment were not very entertaining. So I decided to make a website. Yes, I had done a one year Aptech course after my 12th and knew a bit of html. Now without having any idea of domains or hosting I searched the web and came across Yahoo Geocities. This web application was a messiah in disguise. They have easy tools to make free website and the user id serves as a unique name after their domain name. So mine was www.geocities.com/partha_scorpion. Weird name right. So I prepared my website without any guidelines and there were pages like
- Homepage : From where a user can navigate to other pages.
- Picture Gallery : Pictures of my friends, and family.
- News Page : Redirected from Yahoo News.
- Download Page : Downloads of applications like mIRC, Toolbars, Desktop backgrounds.
- Comments Section : Where users could come and comment their experience.
Today Geocities have no existence as Yahoo closed it down few years back. The bits of my broken page can be found in http://www.geocities.ws/partha_scorpion/index-2.html
Tremendous change came later when people transformed their BSNL lines to internet lines and how BSNL marketed their plans in the local dailies. It was more of a push medium where people were skeptical about the whole use of internet in their daily lives and giants like BSNL advertised in newspapers. Now Indians always have this never fading special feeling for BSNL, MTNL, TATA, Electricity Board etc. Now when they advertised something, even if it's a piece of rock.. people would storm in their offices to buy one and here internet connection was no different. I remember when TATA Indica was introduced in 1998 people in small towns had gone crazy. They visualized that future taxi as Indian BMW! Pre-Bookings, Diwali & Puja offers and what freaking not. All I saw few months later that Indica sounded like a tractor and people regretting their buy. Same happened for BSNL as well.
BSNL had and still have a very very poor after sales service. Means.. after you purchase any service from BSNL you are trapped. If that thing dont work BSNL guys won't even come to your home to rectify. Places where there were frequent thunder storms and rains or places were there were frequent wire cuts due to storms were worst effected. Your phone lines dead and so is your internet. They provide outdated modems that time Dial Ups and not ADSL .. or whatever. There can be millions of reasons why a BSNL internet is down and without any proper rectification.
Gradually many computer hardware companies tied up with some ISP (Internet Service Providers) so when anyone buys a PC they get internet connection free for a year. Amazing right! Thankfully my folks back home were not that technologically conscious and they never foresighted the need of a PC at our home.
Today when I see the transformation I feel amazing. Today I got a 2MBps Airtel connection at home, a 3G Vodafone network for my smartphone, a 3MBps TATA Photon Data Card and yes again an dual Airtel 2MBps leased line at my office. I pay my internet, phone bills online. I recharge my mom's TATA Sky and also book movie tickets, buy books and clothes.. all online. Wikipedia & Google became a major source of knowledge while Gmail became a one stop solution for emails, calenders, tasks etc. No wonder what Facebook means to the world today.
I'd also like to mention those website transformation like Indiatimes.com popped up one day and like Yahoo also showcased a huge load of services, but for Indians. So did rediff transformed and also introduced a messenger service called Rediff Bol with a red parrot. I could never run that application without shutting it down from the task menu (Ctrl+Alt+Del). I just hate Rediff Bol. Sify too came with amazing services not only online but also they opened up membership cafes arcoss India with economy rates and good speed.
I took my first PC in 2004 which was gifted by Mom at Delhi. My younger brother & me without any guidance land up in Nehru Place to buy a PC. If I think of that situation I don't believe myself today. So we buy a branded PC named Xenitis by some Kolkatta based IT firm. Now, in Munirka, where I was staying at that time, the only ISP available was Sify. The starting plan was 64KBps and with a download speed of 8kbps so ideally that speed was of no use to download. All we did was surf the internet. Later we migrated our plan to 128KBps as 256KBps (Broadband) was too expensive that time. I still remember running my PC overnights just to download a song, movie, game etc.
This technology transformation of Internet smells so good and I wonder .. what's next?
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