{"id":2283,"date":"2012-04-13T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2012-04-13T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T00:18:53","slug":"stay-off-the-internet-if-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/stay-off-the-internet-if-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay off the Internet &#8211; if you can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first used the Internet in the late 80&#8217;s, even though back then it was just email; something that worked surprisingly well. There was no spam, and to read my email I needed permission from the university&#8217;s IT department manager. Every single time.<\/p>\n<p>These days, we take it for granted; we are wired &#8211; <em>or wireless<\/em> &#8211; on the global network that spans every nation in the world, 24\/7. It&#8217;s an endless connection, a digital umbilical cord that we&#8217;re using non-stop, in order to stay informed, in touch or in sync with the rest of the so-called &#8216;civilized&#8217; world.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/13\/tech\/web\/pew-not-using-internet\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20% of adult Americans<\/strong><\/a> still don&#8217;t use the Internet, those of us that do know well that we can&#8217;t unplug from the &#8220;grid&#8221;; we can&#8217;t exit the &#8220;matrix&#8221; and we cannot escape the &#8220;web&#8221;. The Internet is part of our modern existence, regardless of whether we use specific parts of it, during our day&#8217;s time slice.<\/p>\n<p>Can you stay off the Internet? I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first used the Internet in the late 80&#8217;s, even though back then it was just email; something that worked surprisingly well. 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