My achievement on Net

        My achievement on Net

        Sam Mwaka-karama

            I joined the net in the mid 1990s. Three years after print publishing my newsletter MONAKK – that had quickly folded-up due to lack of funds. The new popular ‘dot com’ jargons appealed to my ear, heart and mind so much I had to get to know the prideful sounding ‘online’ systems. I too was still a proud man then. And to me the net symbolized just that! Uniqueness!  

                It was fun sending a letter to a friend and getting response by Email till I shockingly learnt that one mail could be sent instantly to so many email addresses at once! OMG was it fan! So that was the dot.com one could write a whole article and instantly mail it to so many Email addresses… marvelous!

                There was a whole broad spectrum of areas of discussions; political, economic, trade/business, travel issues, Visa factors and many-many more areas of discussions kept us busy often exchanging Email two, three, four even five times a day.

                Google was to me a wonderful [sound-name] I likened to the [goo-goo] cry of those large, long-winged Owls. The bird associated with wisdom and wizardry.  

                It was sickening: say if one went to an internet café, paid. Then found no mails from friends! That was the limit! It was how vital exchange of information was among friends back then in the 1990s.

                By the turn of the century a new jargon had appeared Blog for me that was it! As a writer this was my place. I became a blogger and uploaded selected articles and an occasional poem I wrote.

                Actually finding my way around configuring my blog page was challenging. But I did really enjoy the trial and era moves. The reading and re-reading of the instructions and guidelines and the terms and conditionality. And the ‘learn more’ every turn of the way. It was a whole study.

                Google was great as a powerful search engine. I got to search and even just came across so many new website. I recall at one time perhaps in 2008 or earlier, I was looking for some site under the letter ‘C’ and noticed ‘CreateSpace’ so I diverted from my original search to explore CreateSpace and in the process registered as a member. But never went back for nearly four years…

In the meantime, over the years I had developed my book; ‘The Water Trap’ and wanted to publish with Amazon. Thus began my Indie publishing process April 2013. And by November 2013, my book went live on Amazon eBook stores worldwide. This January 2013 I utilized Google translate to self publish my book in German and Dutch/Flemish. ***

Writer is an Independent Thinker, Blogger, Author and Indie Publisher