9. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape 4.0 or higher."

8. You can't correspond with your mother because she doesn't have a computer.

7. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

6. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.

5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access.

4. You laugh at people with 28.8 modems.

3. You start using smileys in your snail mail.

2. The last person you picked up was a JPG.

1. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged on for two hours. You start totwitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem. You succeed.