Check these 60
statements to see if you are addicted to the Net.
If you answer yes to 12 or more then you are seriously addicted and new to find a new
diversion.
1.Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
2.You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
3.You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.
4.You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.
5.You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
6.All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net: 56KPS...ISDN...cable modem...T1...T3...OC-c3.
7.And even your night dreams are in HTML.
8.You find yourself typing .COM after every period when using a word processor.com.
9.You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
10.You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
11.Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.
12.You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
13.Your wife/girlfriend drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you what she looks like.
14.All of your friends have an @ in their names.
15.When looking at a page full of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
16.Your dog has its own home page.
17.You've already visited all the links at Yahoo and you're halfway through Lycos.
18.You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
19.You realize there is not a sound in the house and you have no idea where your children are.
20.You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
21.You refer to your age as 3.x.
22.You have commandeered your teenager's phone line for the net and even his friends know not to call on his line anymore.
23.Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
24.You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
25.You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
26.You laugh at people with 14.4 baud modems.
27.Your husband tells you he's had the beard for two months.
28.You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest games from download.com
29.You start looking for hot HTML addresses in public restrooms.
30.You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
31.You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
32.You tell the cab driver you live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
33.You actually try that 123.elm.street address.
34.You tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got work to do!" and you don't even have a job.
35.Your friends no longer send you e-mail...they just log on to your IRC channel.
36.You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.
37.Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
38.You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines useless.
39.You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 3.01 or higher."
40.You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your ISP...because you never log off.
41.The last girl you picked up was only a jpeg.
42.You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.
43.You forget what year it is.
44.You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
45.You ask your doctor to implant a gig in your brain.
46.You leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it sounds like the ocean wind...the perfect soundtrack for Surfing the Net.
47.You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to call 200 hours per month "unlimited."
48.You turn on your computer and turn off your wife.
49.Your wife says communication is important in a marriage...so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.
50.As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the BACK button.
51.You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
52.You start using smileys in your snail mail.
53.Only communication in your household is through email.
54.AT&T names you Customer of the Month for the third consecutive time.
55.Batteries in the TV remote now last for months.
56.You hire a housekeeper for your home page.
57.New mail alarm on your palmtop annoys other churchgoers.
58.Your mouse-clicking forearm rivals Popeye's.
59.You unsuccessfully try to download a pizza from www.dominos.com.
60.You come back and check this list every half-hour.
Thanks to:
peter.bergt@magnet.at <peter.bergt@magnet.at>
for compiling this great list!
