You Know You Are Addicted to the Internet When...
- You actually wore a blue
ribbon to protest the Communications Decency Act.
- You kiss your girlfriend's
home page.
- Your bookmark takes 15 minutes
to scroll from top to bottom.
- Your eyeglasses have a web
site burned in on them.
- You find yourself
brainstorming for new subjects to search.
- You refuse to go to a vacation
spot with no electricity and no phone lines.
- You finally do take that
vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a
laptop.
- You spend half of the plane
trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the
overhead compartment.
- All your daydreaming is
preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net:
28.8...ISDN...cable modem...T1...T3.
- And even your night dreams are
in HTML.
- You find yourself typing
"com" after every period when using a word
processor.com
- You turn off your modem and
get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the
plug on a loved one.
- You refer to going to the
bathroom as downloading.
- You start introducing yourself
as "Jim at I-I-Net dot net dot au"
- Your heart races faster and
beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site
address in print or on TV, even though you've never had
heart problems before.
- You step out of your room and
realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a
clue when it happened.
- You turn on your intercom when
leaving the room so you can hear if new mail arrives.
- Your wife drapes a blond wig
over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
- All of your friends have an @
in their names.
- When looking at a pageful of
someone else's links, you notice all of them are already
highlighted in purple.
- Your dog has its own home
page.
- You've already visited all the
links at Yahoo and you're halfway through Lycos. or
[C]ontinue?
- You can't call your
mother...she doesn't have a modem.
- You realize there is not a
sound in the house and you have no idea where your
children are.
- You believe nothing looks
sexier than a man in boxer shorts illuminated only by a
17" inch svga monitor.
- You check your mail. It says
"no new messages." So you check it again.
- You refer to your age as 3.x.
- You have comandeered your
teenager's phone line for the net and even his friends
know not to call on his line anymore.
- Your phone bill comes to your
doorstep in a box.
- Even though you died last
week, you've managed to retain OPS on your favorite IRC
channel.
- You code your homework in HTML
and give your instructor the URL.
- You don't know what sex over
three of your closest friends are, because they have
neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
- You name your children Eudora,
Mozilla and Dotcom.
- You laugh at people with 2400
baud modems.
- Your husband tells you he's
had the beard for 2 months.
- You miss more than five meals
a week downloading the latest games from Apogee.t, or
[C]ontinue?
- You start looking for hot HTML
addresses in public restrooms.
- You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to
the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way
back to bed.
- You move into a new house and
decide to Netscape before you landscape.
- You tell the cab driver you
live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
- You actually try that
123.elm.street address.
- Your virtual girlfriend finds
a new net sweetheart with a larger bandwidth.
- You tell the kids they can't
use the computer because "Daddy's got work to
do" and you don't even have a job.
- Your friends no longer send
you e-mail...they just log on to your IRC channel.
- You buy a Captain Kirk chair
with a built-in keyboard and mouse.
- Your wife makes a new rule:
"The computer cannot come to bed."
- You are so familiar with the
WWW that you find the search engines useless.
- You get a tatoo that says
"This body best viewed with Netscape 2.0 or higher.
- You never have to deal with
busy signals when calling your ISP... because you never
log off.
- The last girl you picked up
was only a jpeg.
- You put a pillow case over
your laptop so your lover doesn't see it while you are
pretending to catch your breath.
- You ask a plumber how much it
would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer
with a toilet.
- You forget what year it is.
- You start tilting your head
sideways to smile.
- You ask your doctor to implant
a gig in your brain.
- You leave the modem speaker on
after connecting because you think it sounds like the
ocean wind...the perfect soundtrack for "surfing the
net."
- You begin to wonder how on
earth your service provider is allowed to call 200 hours
per month "unlimited."
- You turn on your computer and
turn off your wife.
- Your wife says communication
is important in a marriage...so you buy another computer
and install a second phone line so the two of you can
chat.
- As your car crashes through
the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is
to search for the "back" button.