My first Internet Experience

 It was a drab Saturday afternoon doing overtime work at Avellana & Associates, an agency I worked for in 1996. A lean staff for some of us as we dug into our team assignments for a Monday ad campaign. I was listening to some of my jazz CDs while I did visual studies when my colleague Pabo, an eccentric ad genius, would lean over and ask if he could borrow my CDs to burn (Muddy Waters, Johnson, etc) in exchange for the musician's full biographies. So I agreed but how? He sneaks into his team's computer and downloads all my requests. He said our agency, and luckily his team  department, has internet, since we were a PLDT subsidiary of sorts. I've only hear of "internet" in 1993 abroad when a Japanese businessman told me if I knew what 'internet' was but I didn't. "Brian-san, you can book flights from New York to Tokyo in a fast time!" he says. Well, I only got to see this first hand though when Pabo downloads multiple jazz bios and handed it to me. Then he showed me how it was done. Slow dial-ups with a browser I can't remember but it was surreal! 

Reading this post suddenly made me reminisce:

https://philstartech.com/tech-lifestyle/2024/03/29/4443/30-years-ago-at-115am-benjie-tan-connected-the-philippines-to-the-internet/?fbclid=IwAR0YCJOUrnNisaA1npgyt2dhJrIuOQgaR91p5GvgxAnPysuiXwg1ODi31J4_aem_AfenkByP5dWkvcMkLYql-g6JqQ6soLz7itEfiYWgvy4vHHKnVvFRMt-XmIGaRhllbxiOMcepI5G8QzjPjMLPgUfo