>You'll know you're living in the year 2003 when.....
>
>1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not
>have e-mail addresses.
>2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
>3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails
>you back from his bedroom, "what's for dinner?"
>4. Your daughter sells girl scout cookies via her web site.
>5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from south Africa, but you
>haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
>6. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she
>can create a screen saver.
>7. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
>anyone
>is home.
>8. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of
>the screen.
>9. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells
>for
>half the price you paid.
>10. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
>first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn
>around to go get it.
>11. Using real money to make a purchase--instead of credit or debit--would
>be a hassle, takes planning, and makes you feel anxious.
>12. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
>13. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow.
>14. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
>15. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
>16. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
>17. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you
>just pulled the plug on a loved one.
>18. You get up in morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.
>19. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your
>way back to bed.
>20. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
>21. You're reading this.
>22. Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else.
>
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