How different would your life be right now if there had been internet in your highschool?

[MiniMandaRuth]

Poll question: How different would your life be right now if there had been internet in your highschool?

Like, would you have stayed in touch with more of your friends and things like that?

[graywarrior]

1. I would have been even more in seclusion. I would have LURVED it.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. There was...

And I am glad.

[momophile]

3. research papers would have been different

that's for sure. no damn card catalogues!

[eyesroll]

5. No Readers Guide to Periodical Literature either.

Gah, I thought that thing was ridiculous.

[skygazer]

4. I don't really think it would have been much different

I love the internet but I honestly don't keep in touch with people any better with it than I ever did without it. I tend to email the people who live close enough to hang out with more than I do those who are further away.

When I lived 2 miles away from my best friend, we emailed about 20 times a day, spoke on the phone for hours every morning and night and worked together all day. It was ridiculous - I don't know what the hell we had to talk about.

Now that we're 3000 miles away from each other, we email about once a month. Go figure.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. very different

I would've had a lot more time to do my homework, rather than search the local woods for discarded pornography.