I don’t say it enough,
but I love you Internet.
You’ve been there for me, ever since AOL found it’s way into my home one dreary day in 97′. I connected with you. I found a calling. I was craigmccreath, then I was MatrixMarvelMan.
I began lightly–an email here or there. Then things grew as I found myself in the chatrooms more often than not, and through this we started to get satieted with technology. Sometimes, if I listen closely, I still hear your modem tones in my dreams.
In 2001 I started to work for you – I started to code the pages you are dependent on for your existence. You kept on bringing me wonderful things as you grew bigger, better and faster. You allowed me to communicate easier; I found forums and a new interest in instant messaging appeared. I started to like Hackers
We threw the stabilisers of tables away in 2004 and delved into the world of dynamic code and cascading styles. From then on I changed. I grew and I met. We joined message boards with friends and coincidences made me connect with the one I treasure. It wasn’t long till the name changed too and I became fusedreality.
You shaped me, Internet, into the person you see now. You allowed me to create connections easier than I could in real life. You allowed me to be myself and damned if I wasn’t going to try everything I could to make you know me. You let experiment with interactions, communication, writing, podcasts and the large world of video with varying degrees of success… You let me find my niche, and I filled it nicely.
I do what I do beacause of you, and I repay you by giving what I know and what I think. You’ve been the teacher, the creator, the shape and the mind of my being in ways that many don’t understand. Most of all–you brought me under control from the young and rebelious child to the relaxed, but often detatched, guy you see in front of you.
And in 10 days you’ll be helping me again by making one of those connections you created real–and no words can tell you how much I thank you for that.
Awwww. That’s so sweet my teeth hurt.
Oh! This is so heartfelt and I’m freaking out at what you said about ‘connecting with the one you treasure’…OMG…I’M the one you TREASURE…ME! I’m freaking out a little here I’m so excited about the next 9 days! I feel the same way about the internet and what it’s done to my life. When I was younger i was sheltered from the outside world and extremely nieve, after I discovered the LPE the message board you and I met in I used to say the internet and my computer were my only good friends. I could tell the internet anything and they didn’t judge, it didn’t talk back, and it never left me. The internet for me became the great vent vacuum. Now that I’m older I realize that the internet itself wasn’t my friend because the internet is always changing so much that it can never be my constant, but I found a constant in you and I am happy that the internet (as crazy as it may be sometimes) is something that I will always thank for bringing you to me.
December…6th…here December 7th there so that’s 7 or 6 days right? Less than A WEEK!