Internet Appreciation Thread....

[WCGreen]

I tell you what, I couldn't do what I do for a living without the internet...

Ten years ago, I would have been sitting at home collecting disability and probably reading or watching TV...

Now I can still do some work because of the net...

People can PDF me their tax stuff, I E-File and then PDF or mail their documents back to them....

I research with the Tax Code or political databases on line...

I download pretty much any tax or state campaign forms I need...

I can verify tax local tax information on line, such as property tax information...

I can research and check words instantly so that my vocabulary looks real good like...

Not to mention I can stop in here for a moment...

Or surf for porn...

Or listen to music I would never hear anywhere else...

Or watch stupid videos on YouTube....

It's just wonderful...

And everybody takes seems to take it for granted...

Not me...

I can live a fairly normal life because of the Internets...

These glorious tubes we are all connected to...

[lizziegrace]

1. It's amazing isn't it?

Remember the libraries most firms had with the IRS regs in them? Dozens and dozens of volumes taking up a whole room.

And the forms. I hated going downtown to the IRS office or wait for one to come in the mail.

:hug:

How've you been feeling?

[WCGreen]

9. Sleppin' all over the place was no fun...

[Deja Q]

2. If it wasn't for the internet, I'd never have seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXLkKflnis

[WCGreen]

10. And yo are a better man...

[Redstone]

3. I understand that feeling in your case, but I think my life was easier before.

Yeah, I had to cart the files for the print ands and catalogs and show booths around to my vendors (or mail them) instead of being able to send files via e-mail or ftp, but ONE thing was a helluva lot less annoying: When I produced something for a printing press, I KNEW what it would look like when it came off that press...unlike creating website, where I have to take into account what fucking browser people might be using, whether that browser acts like it's supposed to, on and on, ARGH!

But that's just me. Oh, and I will indeed thank the use of e-mail for allowing me to get rid of that goddamn annoying FAX machine about six years ago.

Redstone

[WCGreen]

7. I can't believe people still use a fax machine...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I think you know where I am on this one!

My god, how my life has changed...

Stumbling into this place...

I can honestly say it has changed my life, and in all good ways...

I will never take the internet for granted, never...

:hug:

[WCGreen]

11. I would have never met CP...

[RetroLounge]

5. Not to mention stalking has gone to a whole new level...

:hi:

RL

[Deja Q]

6. And yet people post nekkid pix of themselves online...

:rofl:


Still, I'd do the same AND post directions...

[Ptah]

8. When I earned my discharge from the USAF, I moved to Ann Arbor

I used my GI Bill educational benefits to attend a trade school/community college.
My main courses were in the industrial arts, welding and machining.
I used an elective credit for a music course.
The professor was a happy man that welcomed me and my brass lips.
The field trip for this music class was to the Notre Dame Jazz Festival.
I actually played on stage at the Notre Dame Jazz festival. I still shake my head in wonder.
Years later (almost thirty), I found a jazz program here on DU. In the lounge.
The host of the show had been a student of that jazz professor fifteen years after me.
The internets make for a small world.

Hello Jessica!

:hi:

[WCGreen]

12. I found a long lost cousin by mistake...

[Ptah]

14. Was that a good thing?

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

13. Oh, sure, you say that now

[DarkTirade]

15. Made me think of this...

http://www.xkcd.com/354/