Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

[vixalicious]

I bought my first laptop in 1998, and using the free CD from Best Buy, I signed on to AOL and began my first foray into the wild and woolly place that was the World Wide Web.

There was a lot of confusion about what this Information Superhighway was, what it could do, what its ultimate purpose was. (Here is the answer to that) But one thing was

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[mrsquizzical]

i find the whole thing to be pretty terrifying in some ways.

i try and keep my email/username/password clusters very separate. but i have already been found once by someone i know. luckily it was an ok person to find it, but as my kids get older and their friends are net-savvy i get even more nervous.

/is no help at all...

[vixalicious]

I think part of what I find disturbing about it is that I truly didn't understand that it was a shift in the structure of the internet. I'm still pondering the whole deal.