Online Communities :: Internet Technology Computers Papers

Online CommunitiesThe Internet...the most exciting, mysterious and phenomenal form of communication to date. It allows muckle to enter a world where they can explore cold rack up places they would not dare to venture into in the tangible world. It gives people the hazard to communicate with other human beings from all over the world exploitation nothing but a keyboard. It is an information highway, a place where look for can be gathered on any topic fit of entering into the imagination. My exposure to the world of Cyberspace began six years agone when I entered college at California State University, Chico. I obtained a school-based netmail account. In addition to writing to friends at other colleges, I was fitting to chat with other people on campus using a remonstrate command. Throughout my 2-year experience at Chico, I never ventured far out of the school-based e-mail system and never once went surfing on the net. It wasnt until I transferred to California State Univers ity, Northridge that I began my exploration of the Internet. Since I was commuting from home where I had a computer with no modem, it was at the school library where I did my e-mail. It was on these library computers that I became beaten(prenominal) with the Internet. I was now exposed to a whole new verbal expression of being online. I began using the Internet to research topics for some(prenominal) document and recreation. In fact, when I moved back home and started going to CSUN, I became very involved in swing dancing. I wanted to get by the where, when and how of the swing dancing scene in Los Angeles. The Internet became my source of information. I became part of an online biotic community of swing dancers. I joined a gathering where people gathered to post announcements and talk about nothing more than swing dancing. The Internet provided me the opportunity to get hooked into the dancing community via an online community. After the first couple of years at CSUN, upon my graduation in Deaf Studies, I obtained a personal computer with a modem and gestural up for America Online. I was now able to have both e-mail and access to the Internet from the comfort of my own home. And now, for the last two years, I have been using this AOL account almost exclusively for e-mail. I never use the Internet unless absolutely necessary and find myself get impatient and agitated when I cant find what I am looking for or when I come to a cloak saying Page Not Found.