Autobiography

I would consider myself to be a "digital native" because I was born in 1986 and I can remember playing on the computer when I was really little, even it was just attempting to understand the default card games are drawing in Microsoft Paint. I think (not positive) my family had its first computer in either 1993 or 1994 when I was in first grade.

While those might be my earliest memories of using a computer, my earliest memory of the internet is trying to access the Nickelodeon section of American Online when my family first got it. This was probably like version 2 of AOL, and I remember we did not have for very long after that. The only thing in that same time frame that I remember doing was going to ty.com to look up the new Beanie Babies that were coming out so I could attempt to buy them. I believe I also had a time limit for using the internet because at the time we had dial up and only one phone line. Before we had broadband, my family purchased a separate phone line just for using the internet.

I do love the web. I love the idea of having information at my finger tips and being able to Google or Wikipedia anything and everything just when it pops into my head. I've been known to be watching television with my family and someone will ask a question that nobody else knows the answer to, and I will open up my laptop and look up the answer on the internet and have it in seconds. I also love the ability to find videos of things I like or missed on TV on sites such as youtube.com or dailymotion.com. Video On Demand online for free is an exciting concept to me. I also use Facebook and Myspace constantly and have them both on my cell phone. I'm also considering getting a Twitter account. The only reason I haven't yet is because I'm debating what username I would like to use. I find that I'm the kind of person who likes to change things from time to time so I would hate to be tied down to one username. So I want to make it something good. I also use AIM and text messages to communicate with people. I love having all sorts of ways to keep in touch with people.

I'm fan of many things such as wrestling, NASCAR, television, movies, and music. I enjoy going to sites to get the latest gossip and news in those different areas. In some cases if I run out of news on the sites I frequent, I will use Google News Search to find information that may be posted else where on those specific topics.