Good luck with your debate tournament, siamese!
"When I had dial up, I was lucky to download things at 2kbs a minute, so I was lucky if a three megabyte song got done in an hour. And now I can download whole movies in half an hour. Highspeed internet is amazing. "
Ah, so true. If I wanted to download a music video, I would have to leave it running overnight and hope I didn't get disconnected. Now, that takes about 5 minutes at home and 1 and a half at school.
I think what made having dial-up for so long really frustrating is that other streets in my neighborhood were wired for high-speed years before my block was. It was so close, yet so far away.
I definitely can't deal with not having Internet access for more than a day or so. I went on a cruise a couple of weeks ago and went online (either in the ship's cybercafes or through wireless access on my own laptop) a few times a day, even though it cost 50 cents a minute because I just couldn't handle being without it.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms