[Back in the =
Fall of 1996, we began sending blog posts on the new internet system at =
Pillsbury College in Owatonna, Minnesota where I was teaching. Students =
set up email accounts and complained there were never any messages. By =
October, 35 students and faculty at three colleges were receiving the =
daily “Grif Net” Blog to fill otherwise empty accounts. Hard =
to imagine those days twenty-five years later! This week you get =
to see a few bits of lame humor we sent that first month, proving that =
age does not make things better.]
[First sent =
Oct 1996 as a humorous warning about wasting time on the =
internet]
SIGNS YOU’VE BEEN ONLINE TOO MUCH
* When filling =
out your driver’s license application, you give your new internet =
address.
* Instead of =
calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.
* You =
introduce your wife as "[email protected]" and refer =
to your children as "client =
applications."
* You ask a =
friend, "What’s that big shiny thing?" He says, "It’s the =
sun."
* You think =
Webster’s Dictionary is a directory of WEB =
sites.
* When using =
your phone you forget that you don’t have to use your =
keyboard.
* You think =
Edgar Alan Poe wrote "The Pit and the =
Pentium."
* Someone =
slips a disk, and you offer to format him another =
one.
* Your boss =
asks you to "go fer" coffee and you come up with 235 Web =
sites.
* When your =
modem starts smoking.
* You log-off =
your system because it’s time to go to work.
* When you =
find it easier to dial-up the National Weather Service =
Weather/your_town/now.html than to simply look out the =
window.
* When you =
find yourself engaged to someone you’ve never actually met except =
through e-mail.
* When your =
desk collapses under the weight of your computer =
peripherals.
* When you put =
your e-mail address in the upper left-hand corner of =
envelopes.
* You maintain =
more than 6 e-mail addresses and/or use more than 20 =
passwords.
* You set up =
your own Web page.
* You set up a =
Web page for each of your kids . . . and your =
pets.
~~
Dr Bob Griffin =
[email protected] =
www.grif.net
"Jesus =
Knows Me, This I Love!"