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Re: Addiction to the Net (fwd)
At 2:16 PM -0500 9/12/96, Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen wrote:
>According to Georgina Kisling:
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, airyn darling wrote:
>>
>> > no no no. you guys have it all wrong. you're online, doing email at 3am,
>> > when your pager goes off, alerting you to the fact that you have email
>> > waiting on another account. :P
>>
>> Nope, nope, nope. You're online at 3 a.m. reading your email when your
>> beeper goes off and it's only then that you remember that you have to go to
>> the bathroom, actually it was more like 3 hours ago :)
>>
>So, nobody has computers in their bedroom....or bed in their computer rooms?
>
>Actually, my computers are in the living room.....except for my Newton which
>is everywhere. Sometimes I write Email messages while in the bathroom.
>I have a sofa bed in the living room.....
>
>My beeper usually goes off for one of three main reasons.
>
>My home server has crashed, impacting my Email.
>
>My work server has crashed, impacting my Email and the people at work.
>
>The work connection to the outside world has gone down....leaving me cutoff.
>
>Lawrence
I just have a 100-foot phone cord connected to my laptop (haven't gotten a
modem for my newton yet). Therefore, my laptop is everywhere.
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