Fallen Ray

Yesterday was my birthday. YEY! Congrats for me!

It was just the usual plain beautiful days for me. Nothing specials. I don’t really like celebrating my birthday. No reason. I woke up as usual. I took a bath as usual. I checked my mail as usual. I went to my inbox as usual, and i found something unusual there. Happy birthday email messages. Should be normal for me right. Considering my status and famousability (is this a word?). But but but, this one is not the usual happy birthday email. I got this one from … *tada* web2mail.com.

I can’t believe my eyes. This is very nostalgic. I’m going to tell you a little piece of my past, which i believe you’ve been longing for. Back then when i still undergraduate student, a freshman, internet connection was so scarce. So very hard to find. Not at internet cafe, nor my university, nothing can satisfy my hunger for good fast worldwide access. The fastest speed i could remember is 5 Kilobyte / second. I would be very happy at that time. Normally we could only get 500 bytes/sec or something. So, you could imagine how desperate yet patience we are.

Every university student gets email address from our faculty. We access this mail locally, which mean it’s much much faster than login to yahoo. By the time i can logged in to yahoo, or care2mail which was very famous at that time, i would have finish reading my whole university’s inbox. No joke.

I got a brilliant idea. What if we can download using our mail? Some service must be exist somewhere out there to save our sad soul! There should be a charming site that can send files on websites directly to my local inbox. I decide to start a new journey. Using search engines with not so good algorithm. Ancient type. Search engines at that time can not return relevant results. I tried everything, lycos, excite, alltheweb. Until finally in the middle of nowhere, i met my saviour … web2mail.com.

Without hesitation i quickly join the force of web2mail.com, download everything i want. Leaving campus with big smile. On the next day, full of spirits i check my inbox. Enjoying every files that has been sent by web2mail through all night. Everyday is like harvest day for me. I even thought of having harvest festival too, but obviously my friends declined enthusiastically.

That was the story from 8-9 years ago. Finding a piece of mail from them, happy birthday email messages which sent to great people like me. Out of blue. I feel happy and a bit sad at the same time. This little mail has crafted something big in heart in my 2008 birth day. Thanks to whoever behind web2mail. Good luck people.