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Addiction to the Internet

"You Know You Are Addicted to the Internet When...

You find yourself typing 'com' after every period when using a word processor.com
You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
Your start introducing yourself as 'John at I
I
Net dot com.'
Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
All of your friends have an @ in their name.
You can't call your mother
she doesn't have a modem.
Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
You laugh at people with 2400 modems.
You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
You refer to going to the bathroom as [downloading].
You tell the cab driver you live at: http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
Your spouse makes a new rule: 'The computer cannot come to bed.'
You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a commode.
You start tilting your head sideways to smile :-).
You turn on your computer and turn off your spouse.
Your spouse says communication is important in a marriage, so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat...

Aktaran: Ozgur Polat <ozgur@umr.edu>
Makina '90