Tag: Internet

I’m always amazed at how far the on-line world has come in the last ten years.

I’m even more amazed at how much I assume everyone else is amazed by that. 

• I live in a special little world called Silicon Valley.


• I live in a world where everyone has an e-mail address (and most have three). 


• I live in a world where I look suspiciously at any business that doesn’t have a web site (even Internet addiction centers have web sites).


• I live in a world where anything that can’t be Googled doesn’t exist.


• I live in a world where most things that can be Googled still don’t exist (killed in a rocket car?  yeah, right).


• I live in a world where WWJD stands for What Would Jobs Do?


• I live in a world where people will buy a Mini because it’s compatible with their iPod.


• I live in a world where a reality distortion field isn’t science fiction, it’s protected by the ADA.


• I live in a world where the coolest computer company only has a fraction of the market and makes most of their money selling MP3 players.


• I live in a world where a project doesn’t end when you ship, it ends when you get the T-Shirt.

Ah… paradise.

You always hear about people getting scammed, you can’t swing a cat without hitting a little old lady who lost her identity on the Internet.  How often do you ever hear about scammers getting scammed?

Mike pointed me to the hilarious bulletin board discussion chronicling the exploits of community of tech savvy people and what happens when a con artist tries to cheat one of them out of a laptop.

A warning in advance… the thread is really really really long.  You may want to start by reading it to get the feel (it is worth digging in a little to enjoy the group as they feed off each other).  When you get overwhelmed by the volume move over to one of the summary pages to get the Cliff’s Notes version.