‘If it isn’t on the web it doesn’t exist,’ – Tim Berners-Lee

For about eight years I existed with out the computer.

I played outside, I went to school, I listened to my parents and everything was fine. My parents, family members and even friends knew I was Erica, I was real and I existed in my life and in theirs.

Although the internet is rapidly progressing, “being online.” is still fairly new to our society. For centuries, people, communities and civilizations lived simple and common lives. The computer was merely an idea.

Although we may use technology, technology does not use us. There are many people in today’s society who use the internet and other various gadgets, not because they want to, but because they have to. The knowledge in advance technology keeps upgrading and we as a society accept it because, we either find it convenient /beneficial or just because we know that there is no way to stop it.

Existing is like the air, you can’t see it but you know its there. A person can feel the wind, hear it blow and in that know it is real, web has nothing to do with it. In technical terms, cyberspace is just endless empty space. People fill it with websites, portals, multimedia and so on, know one knows where the end is, it in a way doesn’t exist, but yet we all know it(space) is there, right?

To be on the web, is to just be active in communication, creativity and the willingness to connect it all.