This is one of the things I like to start from. It’s the story how I found the Internet and became part of it.

I was 13 years old teen in the year 1994. All started from my finnish language lesson. We had to give a presentation about free subject. Everyone had a possibility to choose any subject he wanted. First commercial Internet connection where launched by Eunet and Tele in year 1993. News were booming about the great possibilities of Internet during the summer of ’94. The first commercial finnish Internet page were launched in the same year. Some of my friends families had got an Internet connection in the fall. I some how got an idea togive a presentation about the Internet to my class.

I really didn’t have a clue what it was about and what I could tell about it. Me and my best friend were doing our homework and preparing the presentations. My friends parents had the Multimedia PC and Microsoft Encarta Encylopedia CD-ROM. It helped a lot when creating the presentations. I read about the Tim Bernes-Lee and the birth of World Wide Web. Actually I also used the first time the Internet in my friends computer by finding information about the finnish Internet pages. I had started also the ADP lessons in the school during that fall.

I wrote up a presentation and created some overhead foils to be presented. I also created a lists of the finnish existings Internet pages for my class mates to check out. Yeah, I shared my links in the paper for the guys to check up when they get to the home. Finland and City of Oulu really where on the edge  in the Internet on that time. Schools and students had computers and access to the web. We even had our first email addresses and possibilities for own web folder and web pages in year 1995. That was when we were coding first time with Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Assembly and Visual Basics.

I kept the presentation and told about the servers and browsers. And told classmates even about the basics how the servers are networked. My presentation were success. Teacher told that my presentation were very deeply focused.

That’s how it started. I did read even more about the Internet from the libary books and when ever I got a change to use Internet I did it.

In the winter during the winter holiday I were visiting in my aunt for couple days. They had it all – a computer and a modem internet access. What happend was that I was reading about how to write hyper text markup language. Then I got an idea to write some own code and to create offline html-pages. Those two or three days were spent on the computer on their upstairs. I was testing different kind of tags and creating a come basic site. On that time the Mosaic browser and the web pages were mostly black and white or gray.

During that spring I were spending more and more time on my aunts place writing the html pages. I think the deep understanding about web creation and nature of Internet was on born in me on that time. I dont really remember when was the first time I  put my pages into Internet. Our family got an multimedia computer in October 1995.

After that I was spending a huge ammount of my parents money and my own time by browsing the loose net of the Internet. The use of modem Internet connection were ridiculous expensive. The most expensive phone bills were about 1000 finnish marks (around 200 current euros) and it was very big money for our family.

After this Internet have raised the one of the biggest segments of the business in the world. I have also been working and studying with it again and again. In this point after 16 years close relation with Internet I can only guess how everything would be without of it.