* You wake up at 3:00 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
* You get a tatoo that reads: "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher."
* You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
* You spend half the plane trip with your laptop on your lap and your child in the overhead compartment.
* You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
* You laugh at people with 2400 bps modems.
* You start using smileys in your snail mail.
* Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged 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 succeed.
* You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com.
* You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
* You start introducing yourself as "Janet at J-A-Net dot net dot com."
* All of your friends have an @ in their names.
* Your pet has its own homepage.
* You can't call your mother. She doesn't have a modem.
* You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
* Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
* You don't know what sex 3 of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
* You find that the awful shrieking sound of your dial-up modem is more alluring and captivating than Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.
* You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
* You tell the cab driver you live at http://www.100.edison.garden/house/brick.html.
* You name your children Eudora, Yahoo and Lycos.
* You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
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