This is a story about a guy who regretted after the dead of his girlfriend. All was happened because of a blog. A blog created by himself. A blog that told all his life to the world. And a blog that killed his girlfriend, the one he should has married two months from the date she was killed. After the death of his girlfriend, Nathaniel joined the 1 Citizen and learned the safe way to blog.

The story begins.

Nathaniel was an active blogger since 2007. Every day he would make sure that he updated his blog. Everything was being told to the public. Everything was known by the public. His love story, his private life and even about his family. For example, if his family had financial problems, he would post it on the blog.

Irvy, what a lovely name. As lovely as her face, her skin, her attitude, simply said, everything about he is lovely in front of him. Irvy and Nathaniel were met during his trip to Korea on 28 April 2008. Since the day they met, they became so close. Nathaniel wrote on his blog bout their trip together. About what they did and went. He also uploaded a lot of pictures especially about the girl. After 2 weeks in Korea, Nathaniel went back to Kuala Lumpur. Their relationship still went on for 3 months. On the 3^rd months, Irvy got an offer as interior designer in a big company in Kuala Lumpur. Since she came to Malaysia, Nathaniel always met her and sometimes fetch her at work. In September 2008, they officially couple. During that period, Nathaniel’s blog also became popular. He posted about their date and uploaded their pictures.  He wrote everything about Irvy including her workplace and address. What a stupid action, right?

Around 2010, after knew each other’s feeling, Nathaniel decided to propose her. Before that, Nathaniel went post in his blog about his plan. Many of his followers gave positive comments except one of them with an IM name SHUTTER. SHUTTER commented that Nathaniel would not get the girl. Nathaniel just thought the comment as a prank and ignored the comment. One night, Nathaniel went to Irvy’s house. The house looked so dark and empty. Nathaniel very curious and he called Irvy’s handphone. No one picked the phone but the ring was heard from the house. Nathaniel broke the front door and saw Irvy’s lifeless body lying on the floor covered with blood. Nathaniel fainted.

Nathaniel woke up and realised that he was in the hospital. Someone has called the police and reported the murder. Polices tried to track the call but failed. The investigation went on for 2 weeks. On the last day of the investigation, Nathaniel opened his blog. He read his last post and accidently saw a comment from SHUTTER. SHUTTER had left another comment for him when he was log out. “ You want your girl to eat bullets?”, that was the last comment left by SHUTTER. Nathaniel went and reported to the polices. The polices tracked SHUTTER’s identity and went to arrest him. SHUTTER was a mentally disorder girl who seems like in love with Nathaniel. She been followed his blog from the beginning. On her wall, there were printed posts from Nathaniel’s blog and pictures of Nathaniel. Irvy’s pictures were stretched out.

We hope you can learn from the above story. Remember not to exposed everything about yourselves. Some of it should be keep as a secret. You should know to control yourselves when blogging. 

Internet accessibility in Malaysia

Malaysia Internet Usage Stats

Internet Usage and Population Growth:

YEAR	Users	Population	% Pen.	Usage Source
2000	3,700,000	24,645,600	15.0 %	ITU
2005	10,040,000	26,500,699	37.9 %	C.I.Almanac
2006	11,016,000	28,294,120	38.9 %	ITU
2007	13,528,200	28,294,120	47.8 %	MCMC
2008	15,868,000	25,274,133	62.8 %	MCMC
2009	16,902,600	25,715,819	65.7 %	ITU
2010	16,902,600	26,160,256	64.6 %	ITU

Adapted from http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/my.htm

The table above show the increment of Malaysian Internet user from year 2000 until 2009. This might be caused by the increment in Internet Provider like Maxis broadband, Celcom Broadband, Digi broadband, WiMAX, P1 broadband. The accessibility of Malaysia internet user is unlimited. In 30 May 2011, Malaysian Government shut down some of the file sharing web site.

Advantages VS Disadvantages

Advantages of internet:
Time saving: Payment of bill through e-payment
Effective communication: Conference through internet via Skype
Educative: Students can learn through learning portal
Entertainment: Watch video via Youtube and Stream TV programs

Disadvantages of internet:
Addiction of internet: Some people addict to internet, causing the disruption of daily routine
Pornography: Specially teenagers who just reach puberty
Money-wasting: Waste money because each family have to pay for the internet bill for every month

Brief History of Internet

1958	. President Eisenhower requests funds to create APRA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
1961	. Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching, "Information Flow in Large Communications Nets." Paper published in RLE Quarterly Progress Report.
1962	•J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept, "On-Line Man Computer Communications." • Len Kleinrock writes Communication Nets, which describes design for packet switching network; used for ARPAnet
1964	. Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized networktopology (Nodes and Links)
Oct. 1965	. First Network Experiment: Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
Dec. 1966	. ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chiefscientist.
Dec. 1968	. ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass.
Sept. 1, 1969	. First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a Sigma 7 Computer.
Oct. 1, 1969	. Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute; connected to a SDS 940 computer. The first ARPANet message sent: "lo." Trying to spell log-in, but the system crashed!
Nov. 1, 1969	. Third node installed at Uni versity of California, Santa Barbara. Connected to an IBM 360/75.
Dec. 1, 1969	. Fourth node installed at University of Utah. Connected to a DEC PDP-10.
March 1970	. Fifth node installed at BBN, across the country in Cambridge, Mass.
July 1970	. Alohanet, first packet radio network, operational at University of Hawaii.
March 1972	. First basic email programs written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning.
March 1973	. First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway).
1974	. Intel releases the 8080 processer. • Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection," which details the design of TCP.
1976	. Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Special Credits to: smashinglist.com . Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail. . Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager.
1978	. TCP split into TCP and IP.
1979	. Bob Metcalfe and others found 3Com (Computer Communication Compatibility).
1980	. Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," predecessor to the World Wide Web.
1981	. IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
1983	. Cisco Systems founded.
Nov. 1983	. Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.
1984	• William Gibson writes "Neuromancer." Coins the term "cyberspace". • Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh on January 24th.
March 15, 1985	. Symbolic.com becomes the first registered domain.
1986	. 5000 hots on ARPAnet/Internet.
1987	• 10,000 hosts on the Internet. • First Cisco router shipped. • 25 million PCs sold in US.
1989	• 100,000 hosts on Internet. • McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free. Quantum becomes America Online.
1990	. ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
1992	"Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.
1993	. Mosaic Web browser developed by Marc Andreesen at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. . InterNIC created. • Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year.
April 1994	. Netscape Communications founded. • Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com. . Java's first public demonstration.
Dec. 1994	Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to create Web browser for Window 95.
May 23, 1995	. Sun Microsoftsystem releases Java.
August 24, 1995	. Windows 95 released.
1996	. Domain name tv.com sold to CNET for $15,000. Browser wars begin. Netscape and Microsoft two biggest players.
1997	. business.com sold for $150,000.
January 1998	. Microsoft reaches a partial settlement with the Justice Department that allows personal computer makers to remove or hide its Internet software on new versions of Windows 95. . Netscape announces plans to give its browser away for free.
1998	. US Depart of Commerce outlines proposal to privatize DNS. ICANN created by Jon Postel to oversee privatization. Jon Postel dies.
1999	•AOL buys Netscape; Andreesen steps down as full-time employee. • Browsers wars declared over; Netscape and Microsoft share almost 100% of browser market. • Microsoft declared a monopoly by US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. •Shawn Fanning creates Napster, opening the possibilities of peer-to-peer file sharing and igniting a copyright war in the music industry.
2000	. Fixed wireless, high-speed Internet technology is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fiber optic lines placed in the ground. . The Dot-Com Bubble bursts. A majority of the dot-coms ceased trading after burning through their venture capital, often without ever making a net profit.
January 10, 2000	• AOL Merges with Time-Warner. AOL shareholders take 55% stake in newly formed company.
February 2000	. A large-scale denial of service attack is launched against some major Web sites like Yahoo! and eBay, alerting Web sites to the need for tighter security measures. . 10,000,000 domain names have been registered.
September 2000	. There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000.
July 2001	. A federal judge rules that Napster must remain offline until it can prevent copyrighted material from being shared by its users. . The Code Red worm and Sircam virus infiltrate thousands of web servers and email accounts, respectively, causing a spike in Internet bandwidth usage and security breaches.
November 2001	. The European Council adopts the first treaty addressing criminal offenses committed over the Internet. . First uncompressed real-time gigabit HDTV transmission across a wide-area IP network takes place on Internet2.
January 2002	. .name begins resolving
January 2003	. The SQL Slammer worm causes one of the largest and fastest spreading DDoS attacks ever, taking only 10 minutes to spread worldwide. . The Internet celebrates its 'unofficial' 20th birthday.
September 2003	. The RIAA sues 261 individuals for allegedly distributing copyright music files over peer-to-peer networks
December 2003	. The Research project "How much information 2003" finds that Instant messaging generates five billion messages a day (750GB), or 274 Terabytes a year and that e-mail generates about 400,000 terabytes of new information each year worldwide.
2005	. YouTube.com launches Special credits to: www.youtube.com
2006	. There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online
May 2006	. A massive DDOS assault on Blue Security, an anti-spam company, is redirected by Blue Security staff to their Movable Type-hosted blog. The result is that the DDOS instead knocks out all access to over 1.8 million active blogs.
August 2006	. AOL announces that they will give for free virtually every service for which it charged a monthly fee, with income coming instead from advertising.
October 2006	. There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online (some stats say over 100 million) . Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.
January 2007	. Microsoft launches its various consumer versions of Microsoft Vista.
February 2007	. Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads.
March 2007	. 1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats.
April 2007	. Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site.

Adapted from: www.webopedia.com