I love you, Internet.
You rock.
Me too.
Hear Hear!
Phil
I agree!
If the internet didn’t exist, then how would you tell everyone how much you loved it?
On CompuServe 
I had CompuServe years before I had Internet access and years before the WWW was the next big thing.
And BBS worked nicely with modem.
I remember writing letters to this girl from Massachusetts I met when I was a teenager. Man, what a feeling it was when I went down to get the mail and there was a letter from her. I can still dredge up the sensation of opening those letters and pouring over every word and then sitting down to compose a response. What intensity and anticipation. <sigh>
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
But now you can e-mail her, and it’ll get there in a second! Rather than waiting a billion years for her reply…
Look, I love the Internet as much as the next person. But assuming you’re not being deliberately obtuse, you’ve missed the point.
Some things are worth waiting for and, in fact, made all the better for the wait. Experiences like this are fewer and farther between, but that doesn’t change the fact.
IMHO.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
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I hate the internet. Even take a look at my website: http://geraldoeatsbabies.tripod.com/
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That was a touching story Raphael, It made a single tear roll down my face like in drama movies while Krokus started playing softly on the radio in the background.
and when i was an active letter-writer, i wondered how people managed to cope back in the days of the mail-ships
where a reply would take months
i’m still holding out hope that the internet will allow more people from more countries to realise that we’re all the same
ideally before they get bombed
Only one? I must be slipping.
Did I mention that our romance fizzled out after I realized that she had no concept of the rules regarding the position of apostrophes in possessives? Shaken I was, shaken!
Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
You know if all those other people would just spend more time googling for images of Anna Kournikova and shopping at Amazon, there wouldn’t be a problem.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I think you can express your feelings a lot better with a letter. It’s something that shows up in the way you write the letters. It also tells the other person that you care about her/him. Writing on a paper with your own hands is much more personal than an email message you can send to zillion addresses at once.
good old internet!
Ideally someone will wise up and nobody will get bombed. But then again, orphans don’t likely have internet access.
Wait, are we talking suicide bombs or smart bombs? Let’s do a Google search on that.
Don’t worry, I was being deliberately obtuse. Whatever that means.
The great thing about the internet is that it does not stop you from doing this, but it lets you read other people’s letters too!
Admittedly, a lot of them may be rubbish, or have nothing of interest to you in the slightest. But hey, such is life.
Phil
Wow, who would have thought this thread would have caught on.
I learned in my communications class that this new generation of computer uses will spend more then 27 years of their life on a computer. I leanred that being on a computer that much makes this new generation anti-social. This new generation is more cynical because of the contradicting messages and information that is on the internet.
Whenever someone gives me a gift on my birthday or even perhaps for no reason, or when someone sends me a letter with some cash in it for college, I always mail a letter back. Letters mean more to me than e-mail does.
Intentionally asinine?