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I started to use internet after I finished my 12th grade. only by 2000, internet became popular in and was affordable. I spent the first few years of my internet life only creating email ids. I think I had around a dozen then. I used to pay Rs.30, only for checking all the dozzen mailboxes, for an hour. In fact, people with a email id were real geeks that time in India.weird???????
Then I got introduced to Mouthshut. I increased my dad’s monthly phone bills a lot only because of this website. Idea behind mouthshut was to get people writing reviews for different categories of products. I was a very active writer in mouthshut till a year ago. Even I had a profile created for myself in mouthshut. Then the mp3 download mania caught me too. I started to search the web for mp3s of tamil and english songs and was downloading them. Mind you, I had a dial-up connection that time. It took hours and hours to downloadjust a few songs. All I did while downloading mp3s was to login to all my dozen email accounts and delete the junk mails I receive. The truth was that junk mails were the only ones I received for months. 
By 2004, broadband internet was introduced to India and I was one of the early getters. After installing broadband, my area of browsing shifted to technical stuff. I started to read a lot of technical articles and also enrolled myself in geekstogo. Geekstogo is a free computer help forum. Here, I learnt a lot of technical and troubleshooting techniques for PCs. By this time, I had retained three email addresses and used only those.
Now that I have started my own weblog, I have started to read other blogs and comment on them too. I was speaking about this to one of colleagues over a cup of coffee and found that his internet life history resembles mine. Is this generic?
Well, I do not fit into this category. My Internet was when VSNL offered a shell account for Rs. 500 a month. My primary usage of Internet was at work always. No, I was not abusing the resources at work — it is what I did on my day job, work on Internet.
I never had a dozen of emails, it was first hotmail and then moved to Yahoo and now gmail. When I switch my primary usage the old ones get abandoned for months. Earlier Yahoo and Hotmail used to kill the account if it is not used for 4 months and 30 days respectively. Now those policies are probably forgotten. They should be happy that someone has signed up.
My other Internet tool is IM, I probably have spent more time on an IM program than a browser.
Well i really disagree to the statement “By 2004, broadband internet was introduced to India and I was one of the early getters.”. I’m a user of broadband since year 1999. I was a regular visitor to the dishnet hub in anna nagar then and i have amazed at the speed of browsing and that too for 20 rupees per hour. That was a boon for me then after trying out all the hip and happening browsing centres in anna nagar which were slow and also expensive. My main way of communicating with my parents and other people were by mails. So i had many people to mail then. Also i dont think that broadband was introduced in india in 1999. I had heard of cable internet connections even before that in mumbai. May be broadband started getting more popular and cheaper by 2004 after BSNL, TATA, Sify and Iqara started providing the service.
You are right. I did not put it in a right way. Broadband became more affordable only by early 2004.