You ask a friend, "What's that big
shiny thing?". He says, "It's the sun."
When filling out your driver's license
application, you give your IP address.
You no longer ask prospective dates
what their sign is, instead your line is "Hi, what's your URL?"
When you find yourself engaged to
someone you've never actually met except through e-mail. Instead
of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.
You're amazed to find out Spam is
a food.
You introduce your wife as "my_lady@home.wife"
and refer to your children as "client applications."
At social functions you introduce
your husband as "my domain server."
Someone says she put on net stockings,
and you wonder if they're made out of World Wide Web.
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 see a mosaic display at the art
gallery and wonder how to access it without a mouse.
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 FTP sites.
When your modem starts smoking. You
log-off your system because it's time to go to work.
If, while reading a magazine, you
look for the Zoom icon for a better look at a photograph.
When someone tells you to remember
something, and you look for File/Save command.
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 your desk collapses under the
weight of your computer peripherals.
When you can access the Net - via
your portable and cellular phone.
If you put your e-mail address in
the upper left-hand corner of envelopes.
You maintain more than 6 e-mail addresses.
If you use more than 20 passwords.
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