What did we do before email? Or online checking? I especially love the whole advent of the digital camera. I remember when you paid for all your pictures to be developed and when it turned out that really only 3 of the 24 were good, you still had to suck it up and pay for 24. Now you can take 500 pictures and weed out the ugly ones and pay to have only 7 printed. Absolutely genius.
And let's not forget about cell phones. I remember when I had a 30 minute per month plan when I started college. It was for emergency use only. And the phone itself was about as big as a glass jar of ketchup and weighed just as much. Losing your phone meant you lost the 10 numbers stored in the "quick dial" feature, not losing pictures and apps along with all of your contacts.
In college, we might have checked our email at a computer center once a week if we remembered. Now I probably check it at least twice per day. And Facebook may still be a huge waste of time, but I appreciate that it lets me see pictures of people I haven't seen in 20 years.
I remember telling Collen several years ago that I was pretty sure this whole Internet thing was probably a passing fad. I guess I'll happily eat that bowl of crow now.
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