Communications upgrade!

Just a random thought.

Yahoo! is celebrating 25 years of communications! Wow... that's fast... Guess we've come a long way.

I remembered the 1st time I faced the internet was when I was sec 1. Dial up on the 56k modem was like hell. But it was really fun when you got online and started to "see" everyone after school on MiRC. Almost everyone.

Then came some of us with handphones... I remembered those ppl with their Nokias, bulging out of their pockets trying to hide it from teachers. Crazy! They had their customisable covers and keypads, some even had lights!

My 1st phone was an Ericsson, those flip to talk and only with 1 line of text to display. That was one of the coolest phone you can ever get coz you can change the ANTENNA and fit some color lighting onto it! Yea, it has an antenna. LOL. That was sec 2? My Nokia came in only around end of sec 3, when I caught the bandwagon =P

Broadband came! Alot of us had signed up for broadband, school also invested with computers in classes with internet access. After school or during breaks we all will crowd round and play online games.

When we had pocket of chances to use the computers in the lab, we never fail to log on to Neopets or Umbar to play and compete. It's amazing that we're all so united for 1 common thing.

MSN became popular as we all had to email assignments. Mr. Ang and Ms Ong always used the Yahoo! Group to give us extra curriculum. A new dreadded means of homework =P We started to sneakily SMS every little thing to each other even we're in class! It's like invisible paper notes being thrown to each other.

Laptops were also starting to become common, WITS during sec 2 exposed me to using laptops for presentation and projects. I remember Mr. Sidek, Ms Yen and Ms Ong always use the laptops, to show videos and to teach. It was pretty cool at that time.

I got my 1st laptop after sec 4, it lasted for 5yrs until the screen was gone. During those amazing 5 years, it has helped me finish my projects, teach in BB, facilitate in Church Service and all my communications and gaming needs! It even synced with my Samsung E700A!

I got a Windows Mobile Device soon after and everything was so natural. It was a high tech gadget at that time and really a ALL-in-one communicator. From emails, sms, MSN to phone calls, it did alot for me =)

Now, we can even VLOG n GPS all in 1 device at the palm of our hands. Wow, we've really come a long long way. Quite cool huh? I wonder what will we be using in the future...?