I grew up in the days of Eloise, I Love Lucy, black and white Andy Griffin, and Dear Abby. Wow, that was our information highway...lol

Now we have the super highway of the Internet thanks to minds much larger than mine. They say in the beginning the Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientist and librarians. Today, it seems that just about everyone uses the Internet for one reason or another.

I can remember when it was a big deal to put televisions in just about every room of your home; now you can still find the televisions but multiple computers as well. Thanks to wireless you can travel with your laptop; even in your own home! YES, I'm guilty of this too. My how things have changed.

In my humble opinion, the Internet is used resourcefully by many and abused by others. Today it is up to all internet users to help monitor the Internet and that is a daunting task indeed.

Our world is dependent on the World Wide Web now and it is hard to remember what we did without it.

To me, the Internet is a lot like cell phones, all of us are walking phone booths (just a visual phrase) and few of us can remember when we had to pull over and rely on a public pay phone; now days you would be hard pressed to even find one that works. Don't get me starter on Bluetooth which makes it hard to tell if a person is truly talking to themselves or on the phone? The Internet puts information at our fingertips and cell phones let us yak all day long. Hmmmm, makes you take notice either way!

For this writer, I hope I never get so old that I cannot appreciate the technology and the minds that create new things and information to make our lives better.

Donna Kelley, NCWriterDK, Maggie Valley, NC ©

PS - A word to the wise (and this comes from my massage therapist). Get off the computer every 20 minutes or so and stretch. It works for me and I had to get a lecture from a kid my son's age to do it!!!!! I know you are laughing and that's OK because I am laughing with you!