Living in the year 2002

[lummy 4]

Living in the year 2002

1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a new screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it's out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You're thinking how true all of this is.

I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1

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You're thinking how true all of this is.

That's exactly what I was doing. Can you imagine what life would be like if internet was taken away from us. Sure, it has been available to the public for only 10 years, but in those ten years the internet majorly changed our culture. I always feel like I am forgetting to do something when I don't check my email that day.

7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer

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Well at least he only had to follow me around for ONE DAY to make that entire list.
#25 You need an MSCE, NET+, and A+ certification to work on your own car.

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[billvon 3,120]

>Sure, it has been available to the public for only 10 years . . .

Really? I've been using it since 1983. Course back then we were arguing whether Arpanet (the original Internet) or Bitnet would win out, and the primary means of access were either college computer labs or BBSes. I had an Apple II back then, and when I needed something new for it (like a printer) I'd have to build an interface and then write the driver. Amazingly enough, once it worked, it never crashed.

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Kinda like how MTV changed music or cellular phones changed communications, etc.....?

I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1

[billvon 3,120]

25. You're annoyed when there are no webcams at boogies.
26. You are just as annoyed if a company requires you to either call them (or even send them ground mail!) to get information about something.
27. Rather than think, you just type your question into a search engine and see what pops up.
28. You have decided to go paperless since everything is on line, and have four times the amount of paper as a result.

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Kinda like how MTV changed music or cellular phones changed communications, etc.....?

I'm waiting for the Classic Hip-Hop radio stations. There will be people talking like folk singers about the "old days" and how "these new kids" didn't struggle and pay their dues in the 'hood. "I used to walk 5 miles through the snow to the bar in Compton to do my dj gig every night for fo' years before I got to talk to a cd label. Kids these days got it easy."

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You have decided to go paperless since everything is on line, and have four times the amount of paper as a result.

Bwah! My paperless office kills more trees than Paul Bunyan

[ernokaikkonen 0]

> I had an Apple II back then, and when I needed something
>new for it (like a printer) I'd have to build an interface and
>then write the driver.

"Back in the old days we didn't have any of this sissy 'windows' or 'icons'. We had to do everything with just 1's and 0's. And sometimes we didn't even have the 1's."