I have been very fortunate with the life I’ve had.
And that also applies to my relationship with the internet.
I grew up in Chile, and in the early 2000s having a computer at home was still a privilege for many families. Internet access was even less common. Looking back, I realize how lucky I was to experience it so early.
It was the year 2001 and I was 7 years old when the first computer appeared in my life. My mother bought a Packard Bell, and I remember it had a 14 GB hard drive, divided into two partitions of 7 GB. I didn’t know anything about RAM at the time, so I don’t remember that.
But that wasn’t the most impressive part.
We also had internet.
The kind that connected through the phone line… and if someone called the house, you got disconnected instantly.
I still remember the sound of the modem connecting.
I don’t really know why my mother decided to buy a computer. I don’t remember asking for one as a kid. That’s something I should ask her someday.
My First Memories with the Internet
My only contact with computers before that had been in kindergarten. We used to play educational games, and I remember one about a school bus traveling through the human body.
Although, to be honest, it’s very possible that my memories are slightly distorted by time.
But when that first computer arrived at home, a completely new world opened.
I spent hours visiting websites like:
- Cartoon Network
- Nickelodeon
- Minijuegos
- estasmuerto.com (a website that tells you when a how you’ll die lol)
I also remember watching Ogu y Mampato on Terra.cl, which was probably the first time I experienced something like streaming in Chile.
Later came the games that defined that era for me:
- Age of Empires
- Habbo Hotel
- Tibia
The internet back then was chaotic… but also magical.
The Dream of Having My Own Website
Since those early years there was something I always wanted to do:
have my own website.
But at that time I had no idea how to build one.
I remember trying with:
- free blogs
- MySpace
- platforms that gave you domains like .tk
I would always start something… but eventually abandon it.
Those platforms were limited and I could never build exactly what I imagined.
Fulfilling That Dream
Today, many years later, and with all the technological advances available, building a website of my own is finally possible.
It’s no longer something reserved only for programmers.
So this website exists for many reasons.
But one of them is very simple:
to fulfill the dream of that 7-year-old kid who wanted to have his own place on the internet.
This space is my digital home.
A place where I can share what I do, what I learn, what I explore, and the projects I’m building.
If you made it this far…
welcome.
In some way, this website is also a small tribute to that kid discovering the internet for the first time.
