Beautiful Thing # 17 The Web

        I know that someday, I will be able to tell my slack-jawed grandchildren that, when Grampy was a kid, there was no internet.   This will be a lie, of course, because Al Gore created it before I was born, but if you ask me, there was no internet before AOL.  

Now, dear scroller, the world wide web lies open to all (except to people trying to watch YouTube in Turkey), a vast playground/library/singles bar that simultaneously gives people a voice, while wiping it out with sheer volume of white noise.  

 The WWW is a teriffic monster.  A hulk of electricity, ones, zeros, and the MySpace profiles and wikipedia entries they represent.  Omniscient (thanks Wikipedia) and Omnipresent (thanks GoogleEarth),  the Web is the demigod of our age and we all worship for hours each day.    

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