The first of many

So, I am here once more typing my first blog after almost a decade. Yup, it was that long ago and my so-called blog then had just one post. Clearly that shows my motivation to maintain a blog.
But with a new blog now, I'm glad that I have a new motivation to continue posting, which is using this blog to reflect on the things that I have learnt every week in COM 125 and also trying earn a good grade (well, true motivation actually lies in the latter).

I have never been a good friend of all this online stuff so I am really relieved to find that java and all that coding extravaganza will not be forced upon me on this course and if the first week were to be to most technical-driven, I have no qualms.

In general, the past week we have had a chance to learn about the history of the internet, how it started of as a military project as ARPAnet and went on to conquer the world. Well, not exactly the whole world but at least the 15% of the world that own computers, and we got watch a few clips too.

Terms like intranet, browsing, groupware and networking were explained to us and its interesting for me to recall that using the intranet can be safe/fast yet extremely troublesome as months in NS has proved.

Essentials like URLs and IP addresses were also covered and basically all this are gearing us up for the weeks ahead which I am rather interested to see what else the syllabus has in store.
So, cheers to my first blog in almost a decade, cheers to my first post and cheers to the one more binding chain to an alternate reality that has once again proved itself to be as important or even more important than the real thing. cheers!