My First Blog to Master the World Wide Web

After having spent a lifetime on the Internet, I think I am ready to commit to writing a web log (blog) in order to better master the world wide web web server.

Taking a university computer class that focuses on learning how to use the world wide web web server is what is motivating me to learn how to use it successfully.

My textbook, The Basics of Web Design:  HTML5 & CSS3, Second Edition, by Terry Felke-Morris, instructs me to acquire some hands-on experience by first creating a blog.

Although other blogging programs were suggested in my textbook, I decided to go with a Google blogging application as I already have a Google account making my attempts at blogging that much easier.

On one hand, I am bashful and embarrassed to put myself and my experiences out there in a blog.  I am not sure if I will like how I sound or how I look.  I think I am more concerned about positive reinforcements from peers and negative reinforcements from the universe with every person a universal finger to put me down for not conforming to societal correctness.  Thinking I have to satisfy the roles and the associated expressions that go with those roles from the various institutions (church, university, employment, orientation, et al) to which I belong has me concerned.

Those were my sentiments before the AmericaOnline, Genie, Prodigy, and CompuServe.  I cannot believe that I used to pay between $200 to $500 USD per month to gain access to the Internet with an electronic handshake on a crappy 2600 bps to 9800 bps modem.  I was so happy to get an incredibly fast 56K modem.  Oh, how I loved to stalk AOL chat sites, download taboo porn, and stalk the private US Congressional documents about the real function of the NSA (back when no one even knew what it was) available online.  DSL was forced upon me, and I grew accustomed to it especially with an AC router and a DSL modem.  Gone were my tastes for chat, porn, and stalking Congress.

My tastes grew to a such a degree that I had to have more blazing quality internet speeds, video porn, and access to every single document ever written by US Congress people.  To enable this speed, medium, and information, I now use my Apple iPhone to connect to the Internet.  Gone is my relationship with my former, ultimate, money-hungry, Internet provider, AT&T.

It is strange that I have spent my entire life online, it seems.  Blogging was never my thing.  I needed faster connections to enable faster relationships to enable faster adult experiences with complete strangers from far away lands just five miles, ten miles, a state, a country, a hemisphere away.

Back to square one:  creating a blog in order to master the world wide web.

I think creating a blog is an excellent way to start out on the Internet.  I never thought so before.  Blogging seemed so lonely and incredibly boring, but not to the millions of people who already felt accepted and in control of this created Internet space through which governmental congressmen and military officials could control information to secure the borders of the US through sanctioned, domestic espionage.

Blogging will force me to confront myself and see myself as I see myself through my various philosophies.  It is a responsibility that I want to avoid to stay feral and free to be lawfully and sexually irresponsible.

Too late.  Time is flying away with every new operating system and hardware upgrade.  I have to blog to master the world wide web for the class I am taking.  It is time to be responsible for the words I use to create the social connections that must endure with or without me.  I had better slick back my hair, straighten my T-shirt, and sit up; the world is looking-- or at least one peculiar stalker who I probably would never be sexually attracted to.

How should I begin my blog?

I attend Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana.  I have an Associate of Arts degree in English, and I am studying to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.  I am taking an elective class called, Mastering the World Wide Web; and the book I am reading suggests that I get some hands-on experience using the Internet by creating a blog.  Welcome to my blog spot!  Be my guest and walk with me though this electronically-connected wonderland called the Internet and its various web servers.  Please.

Nah.  I need something more concise.  Internet users have short-attention spans unless what they are looking at is about pornography or pictures of cats.  Hmm.

My first blog:

Hello.  My name is Robert Darryl Hidalgo.  ;D