Computer and Internet
My first encounter with a computer was when I was at a tender age of 10. During this time, I didn’t know most of the capabilities that this device had. All I thought was that the computer is a portable version of a television set. This claim was, however, not true as I came to realize that computers can store information in the hard disks such as files, movies, and images; a capability that a television set did not have (Swedin, & Ferro, 2017). Therefore, my first encounter with a computer served as an eye-opener to me as I could differentiate it with a television set.
Having familiarized myself with computers, I was eager to know how the internet works. My main interest was in knowing how to send a stored file or saved messages from my computer to other computers in remote locations with the help of the internet. In this case, I came to realize that computers have ports that support wired internet from a local area network (LAN) (Green, 2014). My first encounter with LAN was so pathetic, and this is because of the poor network connection. The signal strength of the internet I was connected to was quite poor to the extent that it took about 10 minutes to upload a small file of 20Kbs. I have never had such a bad encounter since then. To this end, it can, therefore, be stated that my first experience with the internet was a bad one.