TIGERX.COM Libarary: Signs You Are Addicted to the Internet

Top 10 Signs You Are Addicted to the Internet

10. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your email on the way back to bed.
9. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher"
8. You name your children Eudora, Mozillla and Dotcom.
7. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the pllug on a loved one.
6. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap... and your child in the overhead compartment.
5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access.
4. You laugh at people with 14.4k baud modems.
3. You start using smileys in your snailmail.
2. The last mate you picked up was a JPEG.
1. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged on for two hours. You start to twich. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem. You succeed!

More symptoms of computer addiction...

When your neighbor mentions taking a drive, you think not miles but megs.

When channel-surfing the infomercials, you grab the remote control and double-click.

Down at the local computer store they Know your name and favorite chip.

Your favorite movies are Brain-storm, Tron, War Games, and, of course 2001;

Your preferred Murder She Wrote episode is the one in which Jessica solves the case of the fatal disk error.

So many relatives and friends call you when they need help with their computers that your're considering installing a 900 number.

There's an ISDN line running into your home, and the notion of low baud rate reminds you of of nursery schools and training wheels.

Your penmanship looks worse than it did in the fourth grade.

Your call your PC "Cousin 'Puter."

You call your computer chair "the Seat of Power." (I refer to mine as "the mighty command chair.")

Never mind those old 5.25-inch floppies, you still have those hoary 8.5 inchers!

You have Chronic lower back pain, Knots in your shoulders, and a cramp in your mouse finger, and you can't see more than three feet in front of your face. (I get this a lot)

You don't throw out bad floppies, you decorate them and use them as coasters.

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