News (paper)

September 17, 2008 at 10:47 pm · Filed under Geek Culture & Tech, Roba

I had just turned twelve when my dad first connected that modem, sat me next to him, and showed me how to use the internet. The first website I checked was Yahoo, perhaps because it was the one my dad first showed me.

I spent the next years falling in love with the internet. Doing my homework over it. Chatting with my classmates about school. Finding out the latest news about my favorite boybands.

Then I grew. And my love for the internet, as well as my reliance, grew along.

Today we were talking about newspapers. I almost never read newspapers. Mind you, I read the news every day most of the time, but I do that on their online counterparts.

With news websites, my hands never get black and dirty. I never have to figure out how exactly to deal with those two humongous pages that I can’t exactly hold comfortably, without having them collapse in the middle. I can always Ctrl+ to make the font bigger. I can always zoom into a picture, or right click and save, or check the same news piece in another website to see different opinions.

Yes, I prefer the digital counterpart.

The digital world is just so… clean. And so easy. And so functional.




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  • Mesh

    and so vulnerable too.

    best invention 20th century i believe..

  • http://www.bullshit.com bullshit

    yahhh,,,, real bullshit

  • http://blog.haniobaid.com Hani Obaid

    no arguments here, but I also prefer e-books to paper books.

  • http://dewmoondrop.blogspot.com/ Prithi

    But everything can’t always be clean. For that matter, to clean things, you need to get your hands dirty. Dirt keeps us grounded. For a beautiful garden, you have to get your hands in manure. Hiring a gardener does not qualify. I want to talk of balance, but I think I am loosing track. I want to say something about newspaper & books. I know they are a waste of paper. But they bring some focus & steadyness. Maybe your Dad can bring some better perspective here.

  • http://alhayat-life.blogspot.com/ life

    :) I agree..
    I hate the part about news papers..
    I never managed to actually hold it and read it!
    :)

  • Mesh

    unless MID’s and UMPC’s are going to be available soon in the market, reliable, GSM or WiMax capable..

    its easier to take the newspaper with you in the car if you were looking for apartments , which is my case ..

  • khalid jarrar

    its safe to say, that newspapers are for fathers, and radio is for people that own a car.

    anybody out of those two categories that use any of the above mentioned means need help.

    :)

  • Mesh

    newspapers still form valuable source for housekeepers specially when used with ‘Easy Spartan’ in cleaning and shining windows lol

  • http://gjoez.blogspot.com gjoe

    I read both. mesh 3arfa leeh ba7eb afresh el gornan 3ala tarabeezet el sofra we7na benakol and read with my head tilted! :D

  • http://za3moot.wordpress.com/ yaseen

    I like that you can comment on stuff on the internet

  • http://asecretwindow.wordpress.com Secret Window

    yup never figured out how to hold the paper right without it falling apart…newspapers make me itch..theyre so dusty and dirty :s