Dullroar

Thanks to Doc Searls for linking to this essay by Douglas Adams, which is absolutely sublime. I quote:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

And he goes on to put the Internet in context as something we don't understand, and perhaps won't understand until some people grow up with it as a fact of life rather than the cool new thing. I'm only 29, but that just makes me feel old.