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  • From: "Wolfe, Joanna" <joanna.wolfe AT oup.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] I Can Quit The Net Anytime I Want? Now ReconnectMy DSL Before I Kill You
  • Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:16:37 -0400

I think it's called big brother...

> ----------
> From: burnett AT pobox.com
> Reply To: Internetworkers:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 1:07 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] I Can Quit The Net Anytime I
> Want? Now ReconnectMy DSL Before I Kill You
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, matusiak wrote:
>
> > I Can Quit The Net Anytime I Want ? Now Reconnect My DSL Before I
> Kill
> > You
> >
> > http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/09/24/12444337;cmt=6
> >
> > Would you accept US$500 to go two weeks without Internet access?
> Think
> > you could handle that? Well, a recent study on internet usage
> sponsored
> > by Yahoo found that most participants were ready to return the 500
>
> > bucks after only five days offline.
> >
> > Regardless of age, household income or ethnic background, all
> > participants in the ethnographic research study experienced
> feelings of
> > loss, frustration and disconnectedness when cut off from the
> online
> > world. Users described their time offline as "feeling left out of
> the
> > loop," having to "resist temptation," and missing their "private
> escape
> > time" during the day.
>
> Somewhere right now, there's a reality tv show treatment being
> written.
>
> Steve B
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  • RE: [internetworkers] I Can Quit The Net Anytime I Want? Now ReconnectMy DSL Before I Kill You, Wolfe, Joanna, 09/24/2004

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