I remember when my mum used to say “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this big important thing. Not “He’s checking his email”, or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.
“Surfing the web” is one of my favourite phrases in that it’s completely meaningless now despite there being far more of it happening than when the phrase was created
I remember when my mum used to say “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this big important thing. Not “He’s checking his email”, or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.
“Surfing the web” is one of my favourite phrases in that it’s completely meaningless now despite there being far more of it happening than when the phrase was created
I feel like “doom scrolling” has replaced web surfing.
“Are you surfing the web, son?”
No, just Lemmy.
Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.
That’s because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
Also, don’t pick up the phone because we only have one line