12 December, 2005

How on earth did we live without the internet?

This weekend's broadband failure made me realise just how much of life is online these days.



I feel perhaps a little sad that our children may never have the experience of placing a large clunky encylopedia on the library table, and flipping it open to research an assignment. The scent of the paper and students who went before.

Nostalgia is something else.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with you. I loved going to the library to do the research.. you had to read EVERYTHING to get to the info you wanted. Now you Google it..

I still read books though, but the rest is all done online

Wenchy said...

Wait, I just want to log on MSN to leave you a message....

Okay..

Yes... although I gotta love the internet.

RKWJ1 said...

Thanks for the comment. The snow looks nice right?

Anonymous said...

I suppose that is true. They'll never have to go to friend's homes - those who's parents could afford the encyclopedia - do the task and hope it's right. Now we have it all available at the click of a button

Butterfly said...

I never did projects in the library.
A miss spent youth perhaps.

Yip, when connectivity is down we are lost too.

Unknown said...

as much as i love my internet, i totally agree with you