plugged in.
My boyfriend today sent to me on google talk, a quote from Paul Douglas. Paul Douglas is a local meteorologist who by all means is very respectable one. Anyway he showed me this quote that he got of Facebook.
paul douglas:" Is it possible to truly disconnect? Laurie and I are going on a cruise to St. Maarten. Took a small laptop but part of me is hoping the ship doesn't have wifi. What's the longest you've gone without plugging into the grid? Just dawned on me that when I'm dead & gone I'll still be getting e-mails. A macabre thought - so...rry. The only umbrella I want to see is in my drink(s)!!"
It actually got me realizing that can we actually be unplugged. Are we now so en-grained into the internet like the "MATRIX" No we are not Neo and we are not chasing a white rabbit. Or are we? What are we doing on the internet? Back in 1998, when I was in high school, html was all the craze, Flash wasn't even around, and if it was, it wasn't like it is today. The only good search engine was Yahoo. Internet explore or Netscape were the browsers. AOL was the king of the ISP. This would be a timeline from 1998 that I personally used the internet for.
1998- School, probably was the use. Email yahoo would have been my email or hotmail.
1999- I was in college studying computer programing, making HTML pages and or games I used it for research. Email was probably main use.
2000- By now chat rooms were probably the big thing. I was always in a fan chat room on my favorite band at that time. AOL instant messenger or yahoo's was a main way to communicate between friends.
2001-2006 Email, amazon shopping, paying bills.
2007-2009 Email, school online pages, social networking sites and of course AIM
2010 - Email, IM, Social networking, shopping, watching TV, movies. Reading entries from sites, which btw you can have it all go to one site, so not to have to jump from one site to another. Twitter, research, mapping out routes. I could go on, but I think you get the picture. EVERYTHING!
So the internet has totally changed over time. Today we use it for everything, from watching TV, talking to people, via instant messagers, web cam, talking on the phone, listening to voice mail.
We take the internet everywhere we even have it on our phones. I don't know a lot of people, who don't receive email on their phone. We can surf the net, we can do almost anything including make a phone call on our phones, which is a small priority for some people when picking out a mobile phone. There are plenty to go with. RIM the makers of the black berry, which has now not just for businesses but for you or me. There is the iphone, which spawned a new craze of smart phones. Android phones, (my personal favorite) oh did I mention we can watch full length movies on some phones? Well you can. Our phones, are extensions of us. We feel naked with out like like if you forget to put you seat belt on, you feel a bit off.
So, can we leave our computers or laptops or netbooks at home? Of course we can. Solution= bring your phone? One problem you're still plugged in, just wirelessly. Pretty cool huh, except the only way to escape that is to use a phone that is only used for phone calls. You can of course will have to disconnect text messaging because a lot of sites can forward data you want to a SMS and you receive it.
I'm not sure we can ever be a people that is unplugged the answer to that is yes, but you probably live somewhere deep in the woods, or have a lot of will power to stay away from such technology so not to be plugged in. The longest I've gone,with out internet since 2007 probably not longer than 24 hours unless I'm camping up North on the Lake Superior National Forest on the Gun Flint Trail (almost boundry waters). So, I ask you; can you be unplugged? I would love to
I wish Paul Douglas all the luck with being unplugged.
paul douglas:" Is it possible to truly disconnect? Laurie and I are going on a cruise to St. Maarten. Took a small laptop but part of me is hoping the ship doesn't have wifi. What's the longest you've gone without plugging into the grid? Just dawned on me that when I'm dead & gone I'll still be getting e-mails. A macabre thought - so...rry. The only umbrella I want to see is in my drink(s)!!"
It actually got me realizing that can we actually be unplugged. Are we now so en-grained into the internet like the "MATRIX" No we are not Neo and we are not chasing a white rabbit. Or are we? What are we doing on the internet? Back in 1998, when I was in high school, html was all the craze, Flash wasn't even around, and if it was, it wasn't like it is today. The only good search engine was Yahoo. Internet explore or Netscape were the browsers. AOL was the king of the ISP. This would be a timeline from 1998 that I personally used the internet for.
1998- School, probably was the use. Email yahoo would have been my email or hotmail.
1999- I was in college studying computer programing, making HTML pages and or games I used it for research. Email was probably main use.
2000- By now chat rooms were probably the big thing. I was always in a fan chat room on my favorite band at that time. AOL instant messenger or yahoo's was a main way to communicate between friends.
2001-2006 Email, amazon shopping, paying bills.
2007-2009 Email, school online pages, social networking sites and of course AIM
2010 - Email, IM, Social networking, shopping, watching TV, movies. Reading entries from sites, which btw you can have it all go to one site, so not to have to jump from one site to another. Twitter, research, mapping out routes. I could go on, but I think you get the picture. EVERYTHING!
So the internet has totally changed over time. Today we use it for everything, from watching TV, talking to people, via instant messagers, web cam, talking on the phone, listening to voice mail.
We take the internet everywhere we even have it on our phones. I don't know a lot of people, who don't receive email on their phone. We can surf the net, we can do almost anything including make a phone call on our phones, which is a small priority for some people when picking out a mobile phone. There are plenty to go with. RIM the makers of the black berry, which has now not just for businesses but for you or me. There is the iphone, which spawned a new craze of smart phones. Android phones, (my personal favorite) oh did I mention we can watch full length movies on some phones? Well you can. Our phones, are extensions of us. We feel naked with out like like if you forget to put you seat belt on, you feel a bit off.
So, can we leave our computers or laptops or netbooks at home? Of course we can. Solution= bring your phone? One problem you're still plugged in, just wirelessly. Pretty cool huh, except the only way to escape that is to use a phone that is only used for phone calls. You can of course will have to disconnect text messaging because a lot of sites can forward data you want to a SMS and you receive it.
I'm not sure we can ever be a people that is unplugged the answer to that is yes, but you probably live somewhere deep in the woods, or have a lot of will power to stay away from such technology so not to be plugged in. The longest I've gone,with out internet since 2007 probably not longer than 24 hours unless I'm camping up North on the Lake Superior National Forest on the Gun Flint Trail (almost boundry waters). So, I ask you; can you be unplugged? I would love to
I wish Paul Douglas all the luck with being unplugged.