It is final. Our household revolves around Internet. It is not that we are all websurfers or computer professionals, although my wife and I both are computer geeks. But a couple days ago the cable modem smoked a fish and so much for Internet. No bits per second. Zero.
But our phones, our banking, our connections to most people in the world is through that cable connection to broadband Internet. Without it our phones ceased working, our email stopped working, Skype and Vonage stopped working. Everthing stopped working. My job depends on Internet.
So for the 2.5 days without Internet (or almost without -- there was still a spotty connection of rogue, unsecured wireless routers out there for an emergency email to my work, or two) -- life was more like the old days -- watching TV for the news, using my cell phone for almost everything else. It was like returning to the year 2001, when Internet for me was ISDN slow mode, NT still ran on most of my computers, and there was no "War by Bush, for Bush" and I used AOL disks and CDROMs for coffee coasters.
Now, after a cable service call, it is back to normal - back to the Internet for news, for phones, for work, for everything again.
But our phones, our banking, our connections to most people in the world is through that cable connection to broadband Internet. Without it our phones ceased working, our email stopped working, Skype and Vonage stopped working. Everthing stopped working. My job depends on Internet.
So for the 2.5 days without Internet (or almost without -- there was still a spotty connection of rogue, unsecured wireless routers out there for an emergency email to my work, or two) -- life was more like the old days -- watching TV for the news, using my cell phone for almost everything else. It was like returning to the year 2001, when Internet for me was ISDN slow mode, NT still ran on most of my computers, and there was no "War by Bush, for Bush" and I used AOL disks and CDROMs for coffee coasters.
Now, after a cable service call, it is back to normal - back to the Internet for news, for phones, for work, for everything again.
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