The kids are back in school. So that means that everyone is always online yet doesn’t usually have time to talk. WiFi seems to be quite popular at UTK. That’s wireless internet for those of you who care. Wayne seems to be IMing me from classrooms lately on his laptop. Is it not considered nerdy to carry around one’s laptop to class? I would have judged otherwise.
And Lipscomb is still blocking AIM and all the other instant messengers, causing great pain and suffering among the incoming freshmen at Lipscombland. Instant messaging is so fickle anyways. Kids these days grew up on IMing. I didn’t. I just starting doing that type of chatting in 2000, if only to keep up with friends. Otherwise I consider it a cheap form of communication. Never had it when I was in school. We survived on email and phone calls. And campus mail. And face to face meetings.
The internet is becoming so prelavent, it’s hard to imagine life without it. What did we do with all this time we would have used surfing the net? Watching TV? Talking with friends and family? We stare into these computer monitors hoping to find satisfaction in what is otherwise a drab society. Well, maybe not drab. Just uninteresting.
I remember asking friends if they had email in 1994 and I’d get the old deer-in-the-headlight stare at me. Some of them thought they had it. This was the time when AOL and other ISPs were not prelavent. So if you had email it was through your school. I spent a great deal of time searching for friends’ email addresses at their respective school databases.
Something happened right as I got out of school. The internet exploded. Somehow something that no body knew about in 1993, was a dire requirement for happiness on earth in 1999. Funny how things work.
And somehow I really had an idea for blogs or something like it in 1998. I wish there was an easier way to update my webpage without having to get out the old Netscape Composer and FTP the thing to the server. There had to be an easier way to do that. But nobody ever thought about that until 2000 or so. I read about Blogger in Yahoo Internet Life. Seemed like a cool idea at the time. Now everyone is doing it and it doesn’t seem that unique anymore. That makes me wonder about the people who read this stuff. Is it because I update this thing semi-frequently? Or is it because you’re bored. Maybe a little of both. New information is kinda interesting, even though it usually rambles…like now.
Meanwhile, this makes me worry. I just need to get a hold of some of those lifetime CDRs (do they even exist?).