我的互联网络生涯(上) · 邮箱/QQ号/网友
- 我这是开启回忆模式了。
自打《加州旅店》(Hotel California)这首老歌让我追忆了一把往日的磁带以后，我这思绪就万千起来，刹不住车了。现在开始回忆我的互联网生涯。
最早接触网络是在千禧年初。那时有了自己的第一台电脑。方正电脑，PC，13888大洋，送喷墨打印机和扫描仪。在当时这配置算是不错的了。现在想想真是坑爹的贵呀，确实是。但这台PC带我走进了电脑生活，帮我开启了网络的大门。在买它之前，我连打字都不太会。
依稀记得自己的“第一们”：
- 第一个邮箱是新浪sina的
- 第一个QQ是3打头的八位号码
- 第一个博客在MSN space安家
那时的网站，记住的也不多。除了新浪，印象深刻的还有一个叫FM365的网站。对这个网站有印象是因为，这FM365网站的页面设计很有时尚感。我Pary这“外貌协会”的，立马被吸引了。虽说内容没有新浪搜狐什么的丰富，但人家这网站看着给力啊！对比起来，新浪搜狐那页面设计，简直是土爆了！
- 邮箱
陆陆续续注册过N个邮箱，我感觉这N怎么着也得是个三位数。这国人爱抢注邮箱的臭毛病在我身上是得到充分体现了。
反正都是免费的，没事想起一个好名，就注册邮箱。注册一家网站还不够，几大门户都得占着，留个名儿。我这注册真不是恶意的，全是发自内心的，真诚地想用这些邮箱们。但无奈我这脑容量有限，密码记不住那是必须滴，连有些邮箱前缀的用户名我都记不住！我自己记不住不说，还老给我的朋友们招烦--因为我老是换邮箱。几个月换一次那是必须的，有时一个月要换几次。另外MSN聊天邮箱也老换。很多朋友百思不得其解，总是问我，为什么老换？其实说实话，我也不知道为什么。有哪位心理学专业人士能帮我解释解释，我这样老换邮箱/用户名的行为，背后有什么深刻的含义？提前谢谢了，真的！
- QQ号
上面提到，我的第一个QQ是3开头的八位号码。但是，我最喜欢且一直用的是一个1开头的8位号。这个号码当时对我的意义，那是极其的重大啊！但这个1开头的八位号已经有主人了，不是我，是远在江苏的一位哥。出于对号码的喜爱，我们成为了彼此的QQ好友。当时年轻嘛，有的是时间挥霍，QQ好友里聊得欢的，几乎全是网友。我跟这位哥聊得还挺投机！突然有一天，这哥告诉我，“我把这号送你了，密码是..."我当场就震惊了！怎么也没想到他居然把我梦寐以求的号送我！记得我还特地问他，有没有别的号以保持联络？他没来得及回答就下线了。我等了等，忐忑地重启QQ，输入新号和他给的密码，成功登入！我当时眼泪就下来了，感动得呗！我后来一直想找到他再次感谢，因为真的怎么感谢都不够！但他一直没有出现，也没通过别的号加我。我心里非常失落，这失落不亚于得到这个QQ号的激动！因为我就这样失去了一位网友，还是这样一位如此有爱的网友。“赠人玫瑰，手有余香”，谢谢！我真心祝福你！
- 网友
有阵子特时兴见网友，但我还是很保守滴，前前后后只见过3个网友。其实我最想见的还是送我QQ号的那位哥，我得当面好好谢谢他。但是无奈距离太远，后来就杳无音信了。至于我见的网友们，我想说，全都是大好人！那时总有新闻报道说，网友见面被骗之类，我没碰上，真是要感谢我的这些网友们！为什么要见面呢？说白了就是：闲的没事，一块儿玩呗！顺序不记得了，只记得：
- 有次是打升级（或玩拱猪）。我们二缺二，对方也二缺二。一看离得不远，于是赶紧凑一块打牌玩。那次去的还是网友家里。这位网友是位胖嘟嘟的小男生，还有他哥们，我们年纪都相仿。这胖小哥大方地让我们饮料随便喝，但是有一点很重要，就是不能让他爸妈下班回来后察觉到屋里来过人！哈哈哈，于是虽然玩牌大呼小叫的很吵闹，我们很自觉地没有动房间里的任何摆设。打完牌后，这俩小哥还特别绅士地要送我们回家。啊，真是心里暖暖的！（其实后来一想，他爸妈回家一看，饮料少了那么多，家里能没来过人嘛，哈哈！）
- 有次是吃饭。我和这位网友聊着聊着，发现彼此的口味，那简直是一模一样啊！说着说着，这哥说不行饿了，中午一块儿吃饭吧，他开车接我来，下午还要赶回去上班。于是立马约了个时间，这哥就过来了。这哥比我稍大一点，人特别幽默健谈，我们去的烤串店，都是我们喜欢的。这顿饭吃的真是倍儿爽，聊得那叫一个欢！
- 有次还是吃饭（好吧我承认我是个吃货）。这位哥比较讲究，着装打扮看得出是注重细节之人。本来网上说好午餐吃火锅的，但我看这哥这身行头，去那环境脏乱差，一股子火锅味的火锅店着实有点不搭。不料这哥非坚持吃火锅，只是他挑了个地儿，店里环境还真挺不错！网上就谈得来，见面聊得更开心，于是俩人又接着一起晚餐了。我说这不合适，这顿我请。这哥非不让，还他掏钱，搞得我挺不好意思的。不料临走前这哥还送了我个小礼物！哎哟，我这空着俩手，只带一张嘴去的，简直无地自容啊(此时黑豹乐队/窦唯磁性嗓音做背景…)！当时心里巨惊，唉嘛，这哥不就是传说中的暖男么！
之后我有混迹过“QQ聊天室”，也有网友想约见，但是“网友见面需谨慎”的势头，那段时间愈演愈劣，安全起见，我就再也没见过网友了。现在回忆起来，见过的这几位网友，真是让我心里很温暖！
（未完待续...)
My Internet Life - Email/IM/Friends
Since the day I listened this classic song - Hotel California, my mind totally immersed in recall mode. Today I want to talk about my personal internet life, the footprint of myself on the internet.
I have my own personal computer (PC) in the year of 2000. The brand of this computer is Founder. It costs $2235 based on today's exchange rate. Very expensive, I know. The PCs' price keeps dropping these years, the price I paid for this computer is very reasonable several years ago. I appreciate this computer very much. Because of it, I could swim in the sea of the internet. I was such a beginner of the computer world that I even hardly typing before I own my first PC. Thanks to this PC, I could write my own blog today.
When I learned how to surf online, I visited domestic Chinese website all the time. As time goes, Western culture impact my mind more and more. Around in 2005, I started to use American companies web services. These are my "First Ever"s non-domestic web services:
My 1st Email: Hotmail
My 1st instant message service: MSN
My 1st internet friend: QQ friends
I tend to remember everything of my first. Because, these "first"s give me a brand new experience in my life. Now I will talk about them in details.
Emails
My 1st non-domestic email address was registered at Hotmail by Microsoft Company. The Hotmail email service is integrated with the instant message service. So I got a chatting account at the same time when I apply my email account. I use the Hotmail email service because it was so "hot" among my friends. Almost everyone has a email address like yourname@hotmail.com. Many of my friends recommend the Hotmail service to me, since we could use the instant message chatting online as well. In addition, the suffix makes the owner looks like a "white collar". Compare to domestic email services, the Hotmail users are deem as more educated and professional then. In another word, people feel honor if they are the users of Hotmail. Years ago, not only I gave out everybody my Hotmail email address, but also I leave my email in my BBS signatures to show off. I was a loyal user until I meet Gmail. The Gmail makes I realize the email interface could be such efficient. In 2006, a friend of my gave me an invitation code of Gmail, I started my Google journey. Due to Gmail's clean and neat interface, most IT professions and Geeks use it. As a person who don't have any IT skill at all, I felt so cool to have a Gmail account! I was attracted by its powerful folder organize ability. Hence I switch my main email address to Gmail. However, such a good service was sacrificed because the interference of the Chinese GFW. To open the inbox of Gmail is slower and slower. Sometimes it takes more than 10 minutes to open, or even can't open. If you were me, will you crazy? Checking email is a tough job for me then, so I switch back to the service of Hotmail in spite of I prefer Gmail. But the good news is, nowadays the Hotmail is updated to outlook.com online email service. The new metro style outlook.com is very neat. I enjoy this big improvement.
Instant Messages
As I mentioned above, along with my email, I got my 1st instant message service from Microsoft as well. It called "MSN Messenger". Most of my phone's contacts - my schoolmates, my friends, my relatives are on the list of my MSN friends. My MSN friends list also include people that are not my "real contacts" like someone I meet online. Like the role of Social Network Sites (SNS) play today, MSN connect people together. Everyday, my MSN contacts greet each other in the morning, share moments in the noon, chat in the afternoon. Thanks to MSN, I could feel my friends are all around. Meanwhile, unlike the dangerous of SNS, MSN would not release too much users' privacy, which makes me feel comfortable as a user. However, the service was shut down by Microsoft in 2014 in China. To be honest, I miss MSN so much! I can't forget the "mysterious man" image of MSN. The man is grey if the person is offline, and he changes to green or blue when if the user is online. It was such a funny time that every morning I observe my friends "come" one by one. People are addict to SNS now, I was bind with MSN years ago.
Internet Friends
Meeting internet friends is fun activity. I only meet several domestic internet friends when I was a teenager. I meet all of them through Tencent QQ. It is a very popular instant message software in China. The meetings with my online friends were very exciting and enjoyable. We hang out together, eat the food we all like, go shopping etc,. I appreciate internet since it offers the chance that of meeting new friends come from everywhere. I know many people even have oversea online friends. Some of them speak different languages. They chat in English despite neither of them are English native speakers. While chatting, both of them could practice English at the same time. Hence it is possible that people from different parts of the world become friends. Meeting international online friends is unique experience as well. One of my friend has ever met online friends come from America, Australia, Korea, Brazil, Philippine and so on. Amazing, isn't it? I wish I could have internet online friends too. I do have some foreign friends, but all of them are met in real life rather than the virtual world. Currently, SNS is the trend. People could make friends with "friends of friends" or any random person they are interested. However, due to the appear of video chatting, many business could be done online. I don't know whether people will make an appointment with online friends, to meet and sit down to drink a cup of coffee any more. Therefore, SNS seems only connect people within virtual world.
(To be continued...)
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