Web of Friends

I thought I "got" the internet.  Need a movie time? Google the theatre.  Want a book? One-click service at amazon.  Can't get the New York Times delivered in rural New Hampshire? Read it on-line. Need to get a message out to the members of your book club?  Send a group e-mail.  Wondering what your college sophomore son is up to tonight?  Check his status on Facebook. 

All of that still seems pretty amazing to me.  My kids can't believe it when I tell them that, in my first job out of college, ...