Good morning!
Remember what it was like before we had the internet? No chat rooms, no forums, no streaming, no email.
How did you spend your free time before the advent of the internet? Did you read more often, watch tv more often? What did you do?
Thinking back, I probably read more books than I do now, even though I'm still a voracious reader. Even though we had a computer, it was still several years after we got our first computer that we got on the internet....I'm thinking it was after I came home from doing my internship for college....before that I know we didn't weren't on the net. I used the computer for homework (writing papers and such) and I did a lot of graphics work even back then, but it was for print, not web.
I still find it amazing (and wonderful) that my best friends are people I "met" first on the web. One lives in Connecticut (and she is just an awesome woman), another lives in Texas (and I love her to death). I had the good fortune to not just meet them, but to actually spend time with these women and get to know them, shop with them, cook with them. Talk on the phone, visit, commiserate with each other when our cats went to the Bridge, and so on. I can't imagine my life without either one of these women in it. I just can't. I have really good friends locally, too, of course, but I feel blessed to have certain people in my life and these are two people who I never would have known without the internet.
There are others, too, who I know just from this forum or that forum. I've talked on the phone with them, but never met them. Yet, I consider them friends.
Remember what it was like before we had the internet? No chat rooms, no forums, no streaming, no email.
How did you spend your free time before the advent of the internet? Did you read more often, watch tv more often? What did you do?
Thinking back, I probably read more books than I do now, even though I'm still a voracious reader. Even though we had a computer, it was still several years after we got our first computer that we got on the internet....I'm thinking it was after I came home from doing my internship for college....before that I know we didn't weren't on the net. I used the computer for homework (writing papers and such) and I did a lot of graphics work even back then, but it was for print, not web.
I still find it amazing (and wonderful) that my best friends are people I "met" first on the web. One lives in Connecticut (and she is just an awesome woman), another lives in Texas (and I love her to death). I had the good fortune to not just meet them, but to actually spend time with these women and get to know them, shop with them, cook with them. Talk on the phone, visit, commiserate with each other when our cats went to the Bridge, and so on. I can't imagine my life without either one of these women in it. I just can't. I have really good friends locally, too, of course, but I feel blessed to have certain people in my life and these are two people who I never would have known without the internet.
There are others, too, who I know just from this forum or that forum. I've talked on the phone with them, but never met them. Yet, I consider them friends.
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