Living with the internet.

In days gone by life was more straight forward, or so the legend goes. When you returned from work, which was probably manual, you could eat a scanty meal and with the setting sun, turn in for the evening. In the morning, again with the sun, you would arise and set about your back-breaking effort to remain alive, with what passed for enthusiasm. This state of affairs continued for literally thousands of years! Why? Alcohol.

It didn’t take long for the old pattern of living to wear thin to those less inclined to booze and soon mankind had developed sliced bread, electricity and the light bulb. As soon as men could stay up late and eat sandwiches the computer was invented.  Shortly afterwards the twenty-four hour loneliness also wore thin and crotchety geeks invented facebook, so that they could show others how many ‘friends’ they had. Not having a way to actually communicate this to each other the geeks and nerds of the Earth held a great convention and invented the internet. Finally justifiying the existence of the countless thousands of miles of phone lines that had been installed all around the planet on the pretense that it would enable people to ‘talk’ to one another.

 Now, some few years on the internet is everywhere. You can even take it with you wirelessly to the park thanks to the invention of the dongle. Who thought of that name? Generall this means that the people you meet will take less interest in your cursive and more in your cursor. If, like the many millions of people born before the internet was, you find this ever so slightly daunting then perhaps you should visit the wonderful folks over at W3Schools.com. These guys haven’t missed the biscuit! As free resources go theirs are first class and if you want to know more and you don’t mind actually working at it you should take a look.

I will be posting some reviews of their content over the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled.