The newest virus caused our IT department to shut down web access for our entire company. This happened at about 4:00 on Tuesday. Yes, I have been completely and totally without web access for almost two entire days. I had to work all day yesterday without a peek at the Straight Dope, or Yahoo, or Netflix, or any other web page.
At one point it became so bad that I repeatedly refreshed our internal web page over and over again, just to get a web fix. It was the only page that would come up. None of the links worked, but I could at least see something besides an error message in the browser.
I shudder to think I used to work like this every day. I used to regularly work eight hour days without either web access or email. How did I do it? What did I do while I was running builds, or copying files?
The world is truly a better place than it was ten years ago.
That is just unspeakably sad. {{Athena}} There were days at my summer job when our network would go down, and I couldn’t get any web pages at all, and I had to interact with shudder human beings. Or read…what are those rectangular things with paper inside with writing on it?
Interacting with human beings is fine; interacting with the automatons who work with me is NOT. I can’t tell you how unspeakably difficult it is to be here 8 hours a day with no web access. I played 18 games of Freecell yesterday, and I’m a little surprised it was so few. I guess I played some Minesweeper, too.
I used to bring a book to work every day for just this problem, but with the advent of the web, the habit died off. All I can say is that I’m relieved and grateful that I have the web back; I can’t beleive life used to be like this every day.
I can’t tell you how much I needed that laugh right now. Thanks, honey.
It is amazing how much the web has changed our daily lives. I rarely call for information any more, I’d much rather look it up on the web, and if a company doesn’t have a website, I am shocked and horrified. I do still read books, but not nearly as many as I once did.
I actually love interacting with people and in fact, I have to sometimes. I get pretty buggy when I spend too much time alone.