Re:yeah, kinda (Score 1)

Instead of internet use midway. Instead of continent use tent. What we're seeing now is the culture that the new-new-newbies are BRINGING WITH THEM. It seems that they aren't interested in the internet as an object of it's own, but rather as simply an extension of t.v., land's end, telephone, and usps all rolled up into one. I feel safe saying that it is a manufactured idea of the internet, one that is pushed by the folks who really want these newcomers to stay in the commerce portals. Don't forget that the masses really are the masses, and just because they have computer and a modem, that does not automatically make them netizens. Am I one? ...got me... To illustrate, I have been fighting with these people from Mississippi about "fwd fwd fwd" type messages. I've gotten the Gap Jeans bullshit from this list, as well as the "Baby O.D.ed on Heroin in the McDonald's playground ball pit" one. In fact, yesterday I found in my inbox the infamous "Neimann-Marcus Cookie Recipie"!!! I replied with a very strong message advocating not broadcast emailing unattributed crap-mail. I fully mapped out the situation for them , saying that each time they forwarded that damnned message, they indirectly increased the load time for my favorite websites. I had absent-mindedly forwarded the full body of the previous message, in effect rendering my complaint absurd. Did any of these info-age Einsteins catch the blunder as would any /.er worth his mod points? NO!!! it is a sad sad time for the nit-picky techheads. I propose that someone somehow steal one of those servers on a chip and sneak it onto a Chinese Telcom sattelite. This could be made web-accessible through a battery of IQ,Empathy,and Purity tests. Virtual Bohemia Utopia. Anyways... I constantly feel like Richard Dreyfus in Close Encounters. Specifically the scene where he is mobbed by the little grey guys who are in awe of HIS alien-ness. !wha???