This post is inspired by a book I read earlier this summer. Ctrl Alt Delete by Emma Gannon is all about growing up online, I'm sure you've probably heard of the book and of course Emma who is a blogger, writer, and all round girl boss. But before I start to fangirl too much and things get embarrassing, let me just tell you that this book made me crack up so much, because I related to it so much. Being a similar age to Emma, I remember everything that she spoke about, from the days of MSN (more on that bad boy later) to MySpace and all that jazz. It's funny to think that this whole living online and spending our lives glued to our phone is a relatively new thing, I only really started to use the internet on my mobile when I got my first iPhone five years ago. I'd been all about that Blackberry life before that.
Reading the book, I found myself covering my mouth and cringing about the memories that were popping back up in to my head sparked by the chapters in Emma's book. I thought, I have to write a post about all my internet memories, as they were making me laugh so much. I also hope that you'll maybe share some of yours too"

So let's start at the beginning;

Dial Up Internet:

I remember using the internet for the first time in my Dad's printing shop, which is where I would spend random days in the school holidays. There wasn't much for me to do there apart from play on the computer, I'd sometimes play games such as Number-munchers (which my dad bought in an atte...