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You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity or phone lines.
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You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
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And even your night dreams are in HTML.
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All of your friends have an @ in their names.
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You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.
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You spend half of a plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
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All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net: 28.8...ISDN...cable modem...T1...T3.
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You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
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When you turn off your modem, you get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
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You refer to going to the bathroom as "downloading."
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You start introducing yourself as
"vijay at I-I-Net dot net dot au."
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You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue when it happened.
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Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
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When looking at a page full of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
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Your dog has its own home page.
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You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
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You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
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You refer to your age as 3.x.
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Mail box of your house reads 'inbox'.
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You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
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You don't know what sex over three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
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You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and
Dotcom.
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Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.
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You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom--and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
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You move into a new house & decide to Netscape before you landscape.
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You tell the cab driver you live at
http://36.park.street/linkingroad/aradhana.html
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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.
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Your friends no longer send you e-mail; they just log on to your IRC channel.
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Your wife's new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
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You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines useless.
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You forget what year it is.
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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.
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As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your 1st instinct is: search for the "back" button.
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Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll top to bottom.
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Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
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You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
