I can’t live without the Internet.
I could say that is because I make my living off of it, and that would be accurate enough. Except I have been an internet addict since a few months after I conned my employer to help me install a SLIP connection to their server, back when Netscape was still in Beta.
Luckily I never had to use AOL as I worked at an institution that got me straight onto the real internet, and to be honest there were very few webpages to visit. Mostly I perused newsgroups, back when they were THE THING.
My mother created one of the first academic web pages for the Physics and Astronomy Department she worked in, and designed and maintained a website for Native American artists. She accumulated quite a collection of Native American art in recompense.
So, I am no Luddite when it comes to all things Internet. But with that said, this hardly surprised me:
“It’s a…
