Internet Crack

around lunchtime on Thursday, the 23rd of September 2004 by Chad

“Get your crack, smack, dope, heroin, and Yahoo in that alley over there…”
The Internet is now a disease. And it is highly addictive.

That, at least, is according to an “Internet Deprivation Study” carried out by Yahoo! and advertising outfit OMD. Participants in the human experiment were deprived of the web for 14 days, and found themselves quickly succumbing to “withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness”. The reason for the rapid collapse of their universe is - say the researchers - because “internet users feel confident, secure and empowered. The internet has become, to some, the ultimate symbol of modernity to the point that participants were hobbled without convenient access to routine information like maps and telephone numbers. The pervasive nature of the internet is such that participants often forgot or lost the desire to use ‘old fashioned tools’ like the phone book, newspapers and telephone-based customer service.”

And this has nothing to do with the internet porn either!