You Know You're Addicted to the Net when...

  1. You wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
  2. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher."
  3. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla, and Dotcom.
  4. You turn off the modem and get this awful, empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
  5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap ... and your child in the overhead compartment.
  6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access.
  7. You laugh at people with 9600 baud modems.
  8. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
  9. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
  10. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
  11. You start introducing yourself as "John Doe at AOL Dot Com."
  12. All your friends have a @ in their names.
  13. Your cat has its own home page.
  14. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
  15. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
  16. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
  17. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
  18. You tell the cab driver you live at http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html
  19. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)

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