TCS - You may have been spending too much time on the computer if...

You may have been spending too much time on the computer if...

From the July 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

You have a 14" TV and a 24" Monitor.

You have ever discussed your Freecell Win/Loss Statistics with friends or relatives.

You have more CD’s with software on them than with music on them.

You have ever considered (or constructed!) a LAN in your home.

You bought a second computer (for your kids and wife to use) and a second phone line (for your modem) but told your kids that they couldn’t have their own phone line because it was too expensive.

You have ever read the ALT.TEST postings in UseNet News.

You know the name of two or more active IRC servers.

You have more than one E-Mail address on your business card.

You maintain your own personal Web site.

You know more E-Mail addresses than you know telephone numbers.

Your Internet Provider is Down or Busy and you can’t think of anything to do.

Your computer has a UPS and lightning arrestors but your spare tire is flat.

Your home computer has more disk, more RAM, and a faster CPU than your work computer.

You have ISDN in your home, but not because your work requires it.

You can read entire manuals on software or the Internet but found Jurassic Park too slow paced and boring to finish.

You check the local weather on-line rather than on-TV.

You are putting off getting cable until you can get a set-top Internet connection.

You have two or more perfectly good modems that you don’t use because they are too slow.

You send yourself E-Mail instead of writing yourself a note.

Your E-Mail client checks the server more often than once every ten minutes.

You have no trouble sending FAXes from your computer.

You have ever successfully explained to a friend how to decode an attachment to an E-Mail that did not automatically decode on receipt.

You are irritated going from machine to machine because the tool bars are not in the same order.

You have successfully shared drives between your home system and your work system.

You use your computer as an answering machine.

You have ever written a C++ program for personal home use.

You travel cross country and recognize the names of places from playing Oregon Trail.

You plan a vacation and consider going to Redmond, Washington.

You hear the word Campus and think of Microsoft instead of College.

You have vacuumed out your computer case recently, but not your car.

You have a Microsoft Developers Network subscription but consider a subscription to National Geographic to be too expensive.



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