After our brief interlude to celebrate Earth Day Lenin’s Wyatt’s Birthday, we return to our list of 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About and turn our attention to The Internet. My comments will be in italics.

36. NCSA Mosaic.
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages. I’m sure we have a phone book around here somewhere. I’m not sure when I used one last.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment. I’m not sure going back to that would be a bad thing.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind. Someone asked me yesterday the current price of a stamp. I had no idea. I guess I could have looked it up on the internet.
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
50. Privacy.
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.

Today’s Lass is the star of The Net, and personal favorite, Sandra Bullock.

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She’s Fine can be taken in more than one way. In this case it refers to this story:

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) – Sandra Bullock and her husband were unhurt after a head-on crash with a drunken driver, police said Saturday.

The actress and her husband, Jesse James of TV’s “Monster Garage,” were being driven in a sport-utility vehicle Friday night when a station wagon crossed the center line and hit them, said Gloucester police Lt. Jerry Cook.

Both vehicles were totaled, but no one was hurt.

I’ve had a crush on Sandra Bullock for a long time. Glad everyone is all right.

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