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by fanchant

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Ok, sounds lame, it's Friday and it's the first of the month. Maybe I'm doing this to deal with stress :) (see excellent article by Rick Liang).
Anyway, what's the one thing about the internet that still makes you pause and marvel at it all? Not the best or most useful site, but the interaction that reminds you how wonderful internet use really is.

For me, it's reading along and suddenly realizing I'm chatting with or emailing someone in Lithuania or Nepal. (I'm American).

How bout you?

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by admin

Yes, to me it is definately the forum of the people throughout the entire world, the biggest most powerful way to get together in history :)

by qomputek

for me its the wealth of information. its never been so easy to look-up information about anything. I remeber the days I would have to go to the library or buy a book. now you get what you want fast and up to date right over the net. i love that the most.

by shaggy735

The Internet is the only way to bring the whole world together.

Just the fact that I can chat to people all over the world and find their opinions on issues.

by road-dog

I love it when an obscure reference comes up in conversation, and you need to pin down a source, quote or reference. I do a search and whatever it is that I need to know, SOMEBODY has a web site pertaining to it. I am always amazed at the ease of information gathering on the Internet.

The flip side of this is the ease of spammers to find my email address...

Another amazing thing is the lack of grammar and spelling ability in many posters on bulletin boards. That is not much of an issue here though.

by fanchant

Hear! Hear!
I often think 'you went to the trouble of learning HTML or getting together SOME kind of web design program, try using a spell checker now!"

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