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I met my missus on the internet 
Simon | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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It's hard to imagine life without the internet now. Sharing pictures with family and friends, online shopping can find exactly what I want without spending hours trawling the shops, keeping up with news without having to buy a paper, finding out information about things that would have required long phone call and waiting for information to arrive by post 2 weeks later. My 3 year old children can use it, but my parents struggle!
Emma | 06.08.06 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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AAaaaaaaaagghhhh!! "Repton" !! No.. I curse you. 45 minutes just wasted.
Ian | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday to the Web. I recall being online over 20 years ago before the web when Demon's software came on a 3.5" floppy, using services such as Prestel, Compunet, CIX, the old Fido networks, and spendin a fortune on downloading from TOTSE (now www.totse.com) where the only way to get to that page was by dialling California direct. Lots of white text on black screens, lots of wading through long lists of things you cold download, (porn pics you could view but you had to read the description of the pic before downloading it) using a 300baud modem......
Thank God for the web, I can't imagine your blog would have worked in any other format.
Steve | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 12:27 p.m. | #
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I see that Repton involved "a lizard who crawls around in an underground maze in a quest to find all the diamonds, avoiding being trapped or killed by falling rocks." Considered alongside inside knowledge of your penultimate paragraph, that made me laugh lots 
Blue Witch | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 12:40 p.m. | #
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Almost all of my work now consists of putting scientific databases up on the internet and enabling the interchange of information between systems. Science has certainly been transformed by it, something that may get overlooked among all the trivia and porn...
Disgruntled | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 1:36 p.m. | #
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Say not what the internet has done for you, Deegee, but what you have done for the internet! - JFK "virtual insaniteeee..."
ttr | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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I too more or less conduct most all my work through the internet. As a children's book illustrator I contact most all my clients (who are mostly 2,000 miles away) through e-mail and send in sketches and even final art sometimes as attachments and jpegs.
In fact, luckily, I only get about 3 phone calls a year from real clients... and I'm afraid I sometimes get irritated when they DO call instead of emailing. Playing telephone tag is so medieval... especially in different time zones.
With email one has an exact record of everything and yet one is freed from having to be Pavlov's dog and jump up on command every time the phone rings.
John | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 5:19 p.m. | #
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I can't say it's changed my life for the better. Yeah, sure, all the things youve cited (except job ads) apply to me. I've met people in RL via the net that I value more than RL people who randomly come into my life. It's change dme in ways I don't really understand. But I'm not actually sure that my LIFE is richer for it. I hardly read books nowaday, for example.
Gert | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 5:50 p.m. | #
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Yep - changed my life pretty astoundingly...
Tom Reynolds | Homepage | 06.08.06 - 6:58 p.m. | #
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I blame the internet for everything!
ian | Homepage | 07.08.06 - 12:08 a.m. | #
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I blame the internet for turning me, a former steelworker, into a geek.
In order to even things out a bit,I drink lots of beer and burp a lot, while 'surfin' the web'.
Jackal | Homepage | 07.08.06 - 4:50 a.m. | #
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To be precise, you could have been on-line even before the Internet. I am on the Net since 1995, but I was on-line since July 1991. It was the era of BBSs and modem communication.
Sekula | Homepage | 07.08.06 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Yep - It's pretty much changed my life too.
Its Just Me | Homepage | 07.08.06 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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I'm another 'met the missus'. I also watch a hell of a lot less TV.
Huw | Homepage | 07.08.06 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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the net is great because it made finding a uni in the UK and moving to london a lot easier, and also helped me leave the US. now, i appreciate it because it lets me keep in touch with my family back home. i'm definetly of the 'internet generation' - i can remember life before the WWW, but mainly that it was a lot less convenient.
veronica | 07.08.06 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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I owe the Internet a lot too. Actually - it owes me a little too! I helped *build* some of it!! In 1993. Well - I helped with the transformation of UK and European Internet from largely academic and small-enterprise concern - into a mainstream telecommunications service. I helped connect up the first cybercafe in Europe in 1994. (Cyberia in Whitfield Street, Fitzrovia) I proposed new governance structure to the archaic academic committee that allocated .uk domain names - the proposal lead to the creation of Nominet - regarded to be one of the best run registrars in the world. I helped design and build the largest Internet backbone in UK and Europe, spanning 14 countries - a part of the Internet that carrried more than half of all European traffic. My customers included CERN laboratories - which is where the WWW application was born. In 1998 I turned my attention to doing the same in mobile - and now, the network and platforms I helped design, build and run, carry around 60\\% of all mobile Internet traffic in UK - and is the largest/busiest mobile Internet system of its kind outside of the far East. Big ego off now. The Internet is wonderful thing though - it definitely changed my life!
Jag | Homepage | 08.08.06 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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Did Tim Berners-Lee put you up to this? He did, didn't he? = ; - )
minijonb | Homepage | 09.08.06 - 12:05 a.m. | #
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