Life Without the Internet Sucks

I have just recovered from two weeks without internet service, "on account of not my fault." I first became involved in the net world when I worked for the Xerox Corporation, in the 1970s. That was the era of Arpanet, an early network used mostly by defence contractors. In forty years network service has become a utility that most of the Western world uses without thinking much about it. Those two weeks reminded me how much I have come to depend on the net for social communication, shopping, information, and news. It amazes me, it really does.