In all the confusion (new job, planning wedding, flat hunting, being ill) it completely slipped under my radar that sometime over the last few months marked the point where I had been online for ten years.
I’d used the departmental network at university and pre-web systems like Prestel before then but in the spring of 1995 I went online in the sense that we mean today and started using e-mail, FTP, telnet, usenet, gopher (remember that?) and the WWW.
Ten years ago I’d never seen a web site, I’ve spent the last eight years creating web sites for a living.
