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You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and
stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
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You get a tatoo that reads "This body best viewed
with Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher."
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You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
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You turn off your modem and get this awful empty
feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
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You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop
on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
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You decide to stay in college for an additional
year or two, just for the free Internet access.
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You laugh at people with 9600-baud modems.
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You start using smilies in your snail mail.
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Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in
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.
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You find yourself typing "com" after every period
when using a word processor.com
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You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
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You start introducing yourself as "JohnDoe at
AOL dot com.
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All of your friends have a @ in their names.
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Your cat has its own home page.
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You can't call your mother...she doesn't have
a modem.
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You check your mail. It says "no new messages".
So you check it again.
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Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
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You don't know what sex three of your closest
friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered
to ask.
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You move into a new house and decide to Netscape
before you landscape.
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You tell the cab driver you live at "http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html".
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