Thank G-d for the Internet

Try going back in time thirty, fifty, hundred years and telling people that one day soon each person in their home will have access to the biggest repository of information ever. Instant, very cheap access, with a phenomenal search engine supplied by a magic thing called a google. They wouldn't believe you. Rightly so.

I still love books, will continue to buy up ridiculous amounts of them on numerous subjects, but the internet has changed the way I research and reference stuff. Every so often I take a step back and allow my mind to be boggled by the overwhelming nature of the internet.

Like many consequences of modern technology, it has phenomenal potential for good or for bad. I don't need to tell anyone what the bad aspect is. But stop and think about the good. Some people remember the days when you had to go hunting high and low for an idea in an encyclopaedia. Best we could manage was to suck on a damp piece of cloth. I used to get up in the morning, work 29 hours at mill for no pay, come home, eat a bag of gravel and our mum and our dad would put us to sleep by killing us and jumping up and down on our graves - if we were lucky! Sorry, this relatively serious post has been hijacked. But by whom? I want you to name all of them (including the dead one).

TRK