My First Internet Experience

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I was just reminded of this the other day talking to a friend about the Internet, how it has developed, and grown since it first came out. I can’t remember the very first time I used it, but I can remember the first time I was taught how to sign up for an email address using hotmail.com.

The picture above pretty much explains it all!

There we were, sitting at our old clunky mac computers, and our teacher started talking about what email is, and how you use it. So, our first instruction was to go to “Hotmail.com” and she would walk us through how to sign up for a new email account.

Needless to say, most of us typed in “Hotmale.com” without realizing what we were really typing, and the entire classroom full of monitors was filled with imagery that no child should see! At least no child in Ireland!

What was your first Internet experience that you can remember? Add in the comments below

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