{"id":1666,"date":"2011-09-16T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:22:26","slug":"can-i-have-a-nice-big-friendly-welcome-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/can-i-have-a-nice-big-friendly-welcome-to-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Have a Nice Big Friendly Welcome to the Internet…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…for my friend Melissa?<\/p>\n

If Al Gore and a dangerously uncritical way of thinking have taught me anything, it’s that he invented the Internet some time in 1994. Since then, people the world over have been amusing one another with LOLcats<\/a>, hilariously awkward teenagers playing at being a Jedi warrior<\/a>, and anonymously calling one another “douchebag”<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh, and looking at porn.\u00a0 Lots and lots of porn.\u00a0\u00a0 You’re on your own for links to that last one.<\/p>\n

Sadly almost entirely absent from all of those 17 years of e-hilarity, however, was my friend Melissa.\u00a0 She was the only person I knew who didn’t have access to the Internet at her house.\u00a0 Work blocks us out from all the educational stuff on the ‘Net – like this video of a baby laughing hysterically<\/a> – so my friend missed out almost entirely on the finer things that teh Intarwebs have to offer.\u00a0 It’s a wonder she was able to function in society, really.<\/p>\n

Well, no more.\u00a0 My friend Melissa is now hooked up.\u00a0 I picture her sitting down at her newly installed home computer, freshly connected to the cable modem\u00a0 in her house, clicking links furiously, trying like hell to catch up with the rest of us by reading the entire<\/em> Internet.\u00a0\u00a0 Got an all time favourite Internet meme that my friend should have the pleasure of experiencing for the first time ever with Internet n00b eyes?\u00a0 Drop a link in the comments!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, let’s have some applause for my friend!<\/p>\n

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…for my friend Melissa?<\/p>\n

If Al Gore and a dangerously uncritical way of thinking have taught me anything, it’s that he invented the Internet some time in 1994. Since then, people the world over have been amusing one another with LOLcats, hilariously awkward teenagers playing at being a Jedi warrior, and anonymously calling one another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}