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People have always
had addictions. The newest, for city folk at least, is
probably the most insidious. That's right. It's the ever-present,
disarmingly innocuous Internet.
So how do you tell if you are one of those unfortunates
who has fallen victim to this worldwide phenomenon?
Here are some tips to help you tell. Remember-if you find
you suffer from more than five of these, you are probably
in serious need of help! |
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1. You wake up at 3am to go
to the bathroom-and decide to just quickly check your
email on the way back to bed.
2. You have a tattoo that reads “this body is best
viewed with Navigator 1.1 or higher”.
3. You name your children Eudora, Mozillia and Dotcom.
4. You turn off your modem and suddenly feel an awful
empty feeling inside like you just pulled the plug on
a loved one.
5. You spend half a plane trip with your laptop on your
lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
6. You decide to stay in school for an extra year or two-after
all, there's free Internet access there.
7. You laugh sarcastically at people with 9600-baud modems.
8. You start using "smileys" in your snail mail.
9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for
two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone
and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to
hum to communicate with the modem...and you think you
have succeeded. It makes you feel a lot better about things,
anyway.
10. All your documents contain words ending with dot com,
like processor.com.
11.You start introducing yourself as JohnDoe at AOL dot
com.
12. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
13. Your cat has a home page.
14. You stop calling your mother she doesn't have a modem.
15. You check your mail. It says 'no new messages' so
you check it again.
16. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
17. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends
are, because they have neutral nicknames and you haven't
bothered to ask.
18. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before
you landscape.
19. You tell motodops who think they know your house that
your new street address is actually at http://1000.phnom.penh/apartment/brick.html
and are frustrated when they don't know what you are talking
about.
20. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. |
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