The internet is down at my office – apparently some kind of wiring issue, which I anticipate is due to the fire alarm system updates going on next door. (One probably has nothing to do with the other, but I need to blame someone.)
You don’t realize how much you rely on the internet until you’re not able to use it. “Internet’s down? Guess I’ll just check my email.” Nice try. “Internet’s down? Guess I’ll just check my voicemail.” Not on your VOIP phone, you won’t. “Internet’s down? Guess I’ll just work on that poster of student pictures.” Except that requires access to a student information system, which requires … the internet.
It blows my mind to think that people ever worked without the internet, without networked EVERYTHING. Every time I watch Mad Men, Peggy is talking about how busy she is, and I’m just like, “What are you doing, REALLY? Sitting around, writing things on paper? All day, every day? Did people really ever get paid to do that?”
But they did, as recently as fifteen years ago. You came to work, and maybe the internet was a tool you used to help facilitate your projects, but certainly not something that was required to be productive.
My, how times have changed.
