Dooms day?

Making up for all the time I lost...!! This is something I wrote about 8 or 10 months ago...posting it finally! I think I am giving a new meaning to "Light at the end of the tunnerl"...haha...this post defnitely did hold on for the light and it was a lonnnnng tunnel for sure.

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F5 F5, Refresh, Refresh!!
Damn!!

Why am I not getting any messages - F5 !!


Ever wondered how many times we do this...refreshing the page very 5 seconds to check if there is a new mail , or a tweet, or a scrap and then feel restless that no one has buzzed in 15 mins!!

To say that, internet has made its way into our lives is an understatement...the internet has redefined our lives! Emails, blogs and social networking have become so rampant that they now qualify as a 'habit'. I can even term it as a DAILY CHORE! Whatever it is, the fact is they are here to stay!

These days, Internet is all about being higly available! There used to be days when high availability was only associated with mission critical security systems or databases of huge banks which could not afford to go down even for a moment as they would affect the daily life of many. Well not anymore...nowadays, every brain on this planet is higly available. Irrespective of age, profession and any other primitve classification - people see the need to be "AVAILABLE" always.
Whether you are @home, @office, in the car or even for the matter of fact in the loo, you can still be online...the internet is omnipresent! (God, who??)

The addiction (if I may call it that) has rooted itself to such an extent that, the so called 'good habits' are being compromised (or customized, I should say) to accommodate this newly found habit! Earlier, peole used to get out of bed, brush, go for a jog, take bath and eat breakfast before they joined the daily rat race. They still do, but with a few welcome interrupts inbetween...now people get up, check email, brush and then again check mail before heading out for that jog. Come back and then check mail again. Take bath and check mail again. The breakfast can wait...but not the mail/scrap/tweet!

Come to think of it - the dining table at my home has had a new accessory to adorn itself with - nope, not flower vases, but laptops!! Yes...I cant remember from when the laptops have been on the table, they are a part of it now. 2 seats are reserved for them and we use the other 2 seats for dining! I am pretty sure my laptop and the dining table are soul mates by now. I wouldn't be surprised if I find a tiny laptop that looks like a table inside my DVD drive (with all the technological advances - you never know. In any case the laptop's been sitting there for an era now - there is bound to be some heat between the table and laptop and that definitely would be sufficient enough to hatch a laptop egg).

I almost forgot why I wrote all this crap..coming to the question...all this internet - is it for the good or bad?? What happenned to the good old days when there was no internet...I remember those days (with this quote - I am in danger of being classified as a obsolete creature), they were defnitely good and fun.

But the modern day is good as well. The benefits of internet are well documented and internet has played its part in making our lives interesting (diplomatical :) )

Btw, ever imagined the pandemonium that might be caused if there was no internet for a few hours??? The consequences are not quantifiable :) :)

Dooms day..is it???