It started in 1995 when my third grade class was taught to access windows via DOS by typing WIN. There were simple computer games and eventually Yahoo Pool. About five years ago I discovered AIM, then myspace. After Myspace there was digg, then mixx, twitter, livejournal, boudica, pownce, plurk, skype, ustream, mixxingbowl, blogging and co-blogging.

I think I was probably fooling myself when, a few months ago, I took the internet addiction test and scored normally. The truth is that there’s nothing normal about my internet usage. No one I talk to in the real world ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention aspects of my online life. Most people have heard of Myspace. But Mixx? Twitter? FAIL? OMGWTFBBQ? My lucky FAIL shirt takes at least thirty minutes to explain to a non-internet user.

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