You Know You're too Serious About Computers...

• If you did an error-free installation of Windows 95 the first time.
• When your modem starts smoking.
• If no one can reach you by phone since your computer is always online.
• If you log-off your system because it's time to go to work.
• If you call in sick because you found a great new WWW site.
• If you can type your top 10 favourite Web sites, by heart.
• If you can locate more than 100 home pages without using a search engine.
• If you can write your own html page.
• If you download more than 20Gb of from a binary newsgroup, in one session.
• If while reading a magazine, you look for the Zoom icon for a better look at a photograph.
• You comment, while watching a sunset, that the image could be enhanced with 10% more magenta and a higher resolution.
• If while driving down the street, you are confused by the numbers on the houses - they do not appear to be legitimate WWW addresses.
• When someone tells you to remember something, and you look for File/Save command.
• When you discover there is no "Start" icon with a flag, on the dashboard of your car, to make it go.
• When you think the File/Kill command should apply to your system administrator.
• When you find it easier to check http://National Weather Service Weather/your_town/now.html than to simply look out the window.
• When you start using phrases like: Hungry.must-eat.food.now@home.
• If you have a heart attack when you forgot to pay your phone bill and receive a "pending disconnection of service" notice.
• When you order most of what you buy online.
• If your fingers quit moving because you've been online for 36 hours.
• When you find yourself engaged to someone you've never actually met; except through e-mail or IRC.
• When you log-off from a session in your favourite newsgroup and your log reads: Online time: 56 hours 24 minutes.
• If your net provider suggests you try a competitor, because you're exceeding 300 hours a month, connect time.
• When you add your third modem and dedicated phone line, and it still seems "a little sluggish".
• You access Microsoft's Web page every Sunday morning for Brother Bill's sermon.
• When that 112Gb hard drive is full.
• If 200 MHz is simply too slow.
• When your desk collapses under the weight of your computer peripherals.
• If you have an "Activity" light installed on your car to tell you when the engine is running.
• When you discover that in order to go somewhere outside, you do not need an http:// or ftp:// address.
• When you can access the Net - via your portable and cellular phone.
• If you try to press Alt-F4 to close your car window.
• When someone tells you about a great new program and you're very disappointed to find it's on TV.
• If every sentence you utter begins with, "On the Net...".
• If you put your e-mail address in the upper left-hand corner of envelopes.
• When you insist on seeing the movie "The Net" - for the 63rd time.
• If you maintain more than 6 e-mail addresses.
• If you use more than 20 passwords.
• If you set up your own Web page.
• If you set up a Web page for each of your kids. and your pets.
• If, instead of a phone number, you ask someone for their e-mail address.
• If you don't know anyone who DOESN'T have an e-mail addresses.
• If you convince your mom that she HAS to get online because e-mail is so much cheaper than long distance phone charges.
• If you can write a list like this.
• If you can relate to a list like this.