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Well done! :) I'm sure there are much better qualified people on this thread to explain what rooting is. My understanding is that it basically gives you 'admin rights' on your phone. You can install more things and mess about with more stuff, but there's also the potential to break more stuff. Here sort of explains it, quite old but still seems relevant.
There are a few handy apps from the play store that require root, such as wakelock detector (lets you know if any app is stopping your phone from sleeping and wasting your battery).
One app I'd suggest you get hold of is AdAway, bit of a convoluted process though - download F-Droid and go to Settings>Security>Unknown Sources - tick it and it'll allow you to install apps from sources other than the play store.
Install the F-Droid apk you've downloaded, then open F-Droid and search for 'AdAway'. Install it and allow it to edit your hosts file, this'll block ads in apps and in browser.
You can now untick the 'Unknown Sources' box in security so you don't allow something else dodgy to be installed by accident or something.
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All done and chose TWRP as recovery... My OCD has made me to do everything twice (teh instruction from the toolkit is simple, but doesn't tell you if you have successfully done something or not and I don't know how to test if what I have done is successful or not...
If I am honest, I still don't entirely understand what and why I have done, but I guess now I have a device that can allow me to do more as I learn more about Android... hummmm...
Thanks again, Mate!!