I can't believe I'm actually gonna hold a 21st birthday party. I haven't held a birthday party since I was like 5 or 6 at most. Well maybe its my introverted nature or something lah but even I'm not so sure. The idea just doesn't really appeal to me, everybody coming to your house and you gotta prepare lotsa food and supposedly games and stuff like that. Maybe its the logistics I'm scared off but I'd rather just chill out with a couple of close friends and go for a nice meal at somewhere cool and breezy. Maybe some lemonade by the pool and a few bikini babes milling about would be a nice addition. Hehe.. where was I?

I figure I've been using Internet since secondary 2. That's like 1996 so I've been positively a frickin' Net half-addict since I was 14 that's almost like 6 years already. I wanna make sure my kids grow up with a REAL childhood, not playing some stupid games at home everyday instead of running about as they should. Reading another person's blog I also kinda realised the different waves my generation has been through. First was IRC, meeting new friends, organising channel outings, crazy bickerings over channel access..
Then it was ICQ, the very first instant messenger to pop out on the net itself. Incredible idea as today's 30 million or god-knows how many users can testify to that. Then came the first mp3 channel I think, #mp3files. Wow~ I thought to myself as I started leeching from users Aerosmith and Nirvana songs, stuff I couldn't have possibly found in record stores. Def Leppard, Led Zep, Weird Al. Then it was the birth of Singapore ONE. Never mind if the portal never really took off, fun.s1.net.sg did! It was then downloads galore using Getright, Southpark episodes streaming down my telephone cable. What else was there, yeah without a doubt the most successful FPS game in multiplayer history, CounterStrike. I started playing in JC1 and I still play it occasionally. There was a point of time where I really couldn't control myself much and I very much wanted to play the darned game, frag the idiot who got me the last round instead of sleeping. Sometimes I played from evening right till around 5am. Thinking back, that was really outrageous and its a wonder I passed my promotional exams and my subsequent A level exams. The bloody game caused a mushrooming of LAN shops all over Singapore, at one point of time it was seriously getting out of hand. The game was infectious and spread like wildfire. Everybody was talking about clans, who was the best sniper, camping tactics and lots of other bugs/cheats.. stuff like that.
Napster came and went, KaZaa is now being sued or something like that and I guess the next big thing of Internet is most probably wireless surfing which is very convenient and popularised by Intel's Centrino notebooks.
Oh well so much for this blog, seems like a summarised history of modern Internet.. haha!