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Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the age-31-lives-in-mom's-basement-hey-waitaminute dept.

tyroneking writes "Phil Hartup on bit-tech.net has captured the Zeitgeist of the web-aware generation: The Age of the Web Hermit describes how some lucky souls can live their lives, earn money, buy necessities and even find love on the Internet. 'Is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more?'; not me!"

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  1. Re:Unless you also use your laptop as a commode... by SgtPepperKSU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you sure? What makes you feel this way?

  2. Re:What? by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    In many places in this wide world, you can get pussy delivered.

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  3. Re:What? by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Problem solved!

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  4. Semi-hermit by kayakun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I confess, I'm a hermit. I'm probably one of the very few people who goes to college and spends all his time in his room. I'm not a full-hermit, though, since I do go out to buy groceries and things like that, but my social life is basically non-existent. I don't even have friends in college, and I have maybe a total of 5 people I talk to through IM. Being a hermit isn't that bad, but most importantly, it's my choice. Some people may prefer to hermit themselves due to social anxieties or phobias. At least the Internet makes hermitting more entertaining. The biggest draw-back is probably the lack of physical contact. I haven't received a hug in years. I don't miss talking out-loud much though. As a matter of fact, since I haven't talked in so long, when I talk out-loud my throat gets sore. Ouch.

  5. Re:Shut-ins by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Um...plenty o' fat pipes in prison.

    It's just sorta like Soviet Russia.

    You don't use the pipe to access society, (prison) society uses the pipe to access YOU!

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  6. Re:What? by fdiskne1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In many places in this wide world, you can get pussy delivered.


    Only on Slashdot could this be modded "Interesting".

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  7. As Sandra Bullock demonstrated.... by arcite · · Score: 5, Funny
    in THE NET: Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vacation. Her life then turns into a nightmare, her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.

    Moral of the story? If you are a modern day hermit, atleast take the time to introduce yourself to the pizza man incase your stalkers find you out and erase your IDENTITY.

    Alternatively, when being chased by phychopaths who want your data, remember to back it up on a trusty floppy disk. NOTHING can hurt those!

    Alternatively, always choose Macintosh, the only laptop that effieciently upload viruses to alien space crafts and save the planet.

    Alternatively, if you are as hot as Sandra Bullock and are also a modern day hermit, I would like you to have my ICQ#, I'm here to help ANY WAY I CAN.