10 Years of Internet

I remember returning home from work and telling my mother Princess Diana had died. Although stunned by the news, she was even more taken aback by my reading about it on Yahoo before the TV or radio news had even mentioned it.

Ten years later, even my mother pays her bills online and she emails me occasionally from Belgium. Me meeting my fiancé via the internet is no longer an extraordinary story either. Neither is the fact that I get to hear breaking news before it hits even 24 hour news channels.

I wonder sometimes what I'd be doing now, if there hadn't been an internet. What would I spend my time on if not on reading world wide newspapers, googling, chatting with friends and occacionally writing blogs?

Sometimes I imagine myself being very old and telling youngsters "I remember a time when there was no internet." Who knows what kind of cyberspace they will be surfing on.