Ending of an Era

The ending of this era is actually quite exponentially more profound than I had originally expected or thought it to be. What I speak of is that this will be my final home experience utilizing a dial-up internet connetion, which has consistently been the pulp of my entire essence since we started our subscriptions to various companies starting around 1997. From Up-Link to Earthlink to MSN, and now, through our new broadband medium of WildBlue Broadband Satellite Internet Service which will be installed tomorrow as I am in school. I believe this to be one of the most defining moments of my entire lifetime, as well as rated highly among all those other events that shall come. It represents the movement and growth of technology throughout the course of my lifetime...as though it were my child and I've watched it grow up, grow and mature through time, but now it has decided to move away onto 'bigger and better things' (sorry for the cliche`). I think I will almost prize the ability to click a hyperlink, take a piss, make hot chocolate, and schedule Grey's Anatomy to come on at 10pm, and then come back to the front of the monitor to see that the final text and pictures of Engadget.com are just then finished loading. With this instant connection, I think it will be gravely more difficult to part with the CRT to do even such mundane tasks as pissing, however strange that sounds, it's still truly difficult. I'm writing this blog post as a sense of closure, to document this extremely defining moment in my legacy as I move from that which has revolutionized not only my life, but every other possible nook and oil-smeared potato chip-bag cranny of what we know as 'life' to something of a second generation of an already-breathtaking tool known as the internet. Without it, I would have never been able to go to Germany for two months this Summer to vacation/travel/learn for only $1,100 as I meant Mona on the now-defunct instant messenger, Odigo. It would have been quite impossible to meet such a person previously, especially for someone who lives on a mountain (not by request OR authoritative opinion). As a final statement, I'd like to state the trends that have been covered by my utilization of the "Dial-Up" Internet Connection that has characterized my entire conscious existence:

• E-mail
• Napster
• Instant Messaging
• Social Networking
• Google's Appearance
• Personal Website Creation
• Alternative P2P Services and Lawsuits
• MySpace Globalization
• Blogging
• Photo-Sharing
• Google and Yahoo's Imperialism
• RSS, XML, XHTML, and CSS Introduction
• Videopods
• Shows-On-Demand through Network Stations
• AJAX

Goodbye, beloved [bastardous] Dial-Up. You shall be [perhaps] missed. - RIP March 31th, 2006 (Future Death)