Internet tools and their non internet equivalents.

Internet tool – Non internet equivalent

Blogger.com - A journal

BBC news - BBC 1

YouTube - The good old VCR

Email - The Royal mail or Fed Ex

Bebo, Facebook, MySpace – Meeting friends with photos, your VCR and something to talk about.

MSN - Tin cups and string

Chat rooms - Congregating with random people to chat.

Yahoo answers – My parents

Google reader - The library

Google maps – OS map

Dictionary.com - A dictionary

Google translator – German to English phrase book

Ragdoll avalanche – Find our own avalanches in order to lose limbs until death.

Wow, life would sure suck without the internet!

Pinball Dad, Pinballed Son

Whilst at a family member’s house I was stuck with no internet. I played solitaire for a while, but found I had no patience… so moved on to play 3D pinball. This started to get boring pretty quickly. Then my dad had a shot and beat my score. My Dad beat my score (My own dad!); I couldn’t stand for this, this is one of the things where you simply have to win!

So after a long time I managed to beat his original score, but he had already set an even better score which I have still to beat! Later on I find out my Dad was some kind of weird pinball addict, he went round arcades playing pinball. Not something you would find in my generation I don’t reckon… But anyway I battle on; I mean I can’t let my dad beat me at something on a computer!


(Despite the fun, i'm glad to have the internet back and have more than just Pinball to do on the laptop)