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My Adventure Of Friendship

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Sitting in front of the computer, I typed in the very first letters that began my adventure of endless exploration, discovery and creation. Two words flashed before me on the screen. 'Hello World'. Perhaps, that's where my journey began. It was fourteen years ago that I was first introduced to these wonderful machines called computers. One fine day, all of a sudden, my father reeled in a bulky grayish-yellow box. Although it seemed quite intimidating and dull at first, we became the best of friends- spending majority of our time together, him seated elegantly on the desk and I, who had somehow managed to squish myself in the drawer of the same. At that time, I barely understood the potential that box of mysteries held. Nevertheless, every click, every window- even those annoying popup adverts- amused me. Yet fate brought our friendship to a standstill when I went back to my home country, India after having lived and studied in Saudi Arab since birth. It wasn't until 6 years later that it decided to greet me again. Our meeting felt quite surreal. Fumbling around in my mother's prized bookshelf, the then nine-year old me discovered a treasure. It's pages were tinted and torn but its cover had the picture of my estranged friend and a cryptic acronym "HTML". After going through its pages for an hour, I finally decided to type out whatever knowledge I had acquired on my mother's laptop. Twenty minutes later, my most treasured masterpiece was ready- my first 'webpage'. It was

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