Internet in our lives

[Nacho-RT74]

I have to admit that without the net my Charger never got rebuilt at least on the way actually it is, and in fact I spend LOTS of my free time on the net, specially because my Charger gets LOTS OF CARE from me searching for parts, info etc... My Charger is a basic part of my life and indentity.

But what about you, your life etc...

[Todd Wilson]

Its helped me out a lot. I have met a lot of good people because of the internet. I have learned a ton of info about the Chargers and the trucks.  It has made life easier with the various online services like bill pay and buying stuff. Email keeps in touch with family all over the place daily instead of 1-2 phone calls a month long distance hoping to catch them home. Everyone works different shifts so its hard these days to make a phone call sometimes.

Its a great learning tool as the answer to most everything is out there.

It has also helped me expand my collection of porn and filth I have on my computer.   




Todd

[SirNik73]

lets see I'm a forum junky, i can't pass a class in school with out Wikipedia it seems, I do about 25% of my work online, and i register for school online... going to see the councilor for the first time because i think I've got enough credits to graduate.

[TruckDriver]

I hate to admit it, but the internet pretty much is my life since I really have no friends to hang out with anymore. I am addicted. I found my Charger and Dakota on the web too. And without the web, I'd never be able to find much if any parts for my car.

[Charger_Fan]

It's definitely a great tool for finding out about things you never new you never knew.
I only really started using it about 6 years ago...before that, I didn't really see the big fascination in it. Now days, I'm sorta cooling off on it (I need to spend more home time on projects), but I don't really know if I could ever go without it like before. Without it, I wouldn't have stumbled on this site & we all know how empty we'd be without this site!

[Silver R/T]

great for researching and general info look up

[last426]

It has really impacted my life both personally and professionally.  Skip to the last paragraph is you don't want to read a bunch of boring Net stuff that I wrote just to keep for my memoirs.

I was doing computers and bbs's long before the Net became popular with a 300 baud modem for goodness' sake way before any graphics.  I was using elm and Pine for email and some obscure usenet reader -- there was no Web.  Then came law school and there was dedicated software to use Westlaw and Lexis as research tools.  We still did mainly book legal research but both Westlaw and Lexis strongly tried to snag future lawyers to use their products.  I graduated in 90 and around 92 or so along came the web.  Used an old software program called links to surf and there were no graphics.  Finally Mosaic came along and everyone went to a link in England to look at a real time coffee pot sometimes being used.  Mosaic turned into Netscape, Microsoft decided to ignore the Web, and wham, it grew and grew with graphics all over but no real decent security.

Microsoft then joined the game, using questionable business practices to try  to catch up to Netscape and others, recognizing that they had made a grievous mistake.  Microsoft software was so full of holes and was so disliked that kids started using viruses to exploit the software.  In a way this was good because it forced software engineers to protect their individual software while MS kept issuing patch after patch trying to fill the holes in the operating system.  Unfortunately, MS OS was so unreliable even with patches that people had to upgrade to 95, then 98, then (incredibly) 98 second edition, then 2000 and ME (a couple that I missed) and finally XP, a somewhat stable OS.

About that time, finally security was being achieved.  Good deal because with a VPN I could finally start working at home.  Now, with a  phone and broadband I can almost totally do my job without going into the office, pleadings are filed in courts electronically, the law is researched with Westlaw and Lexis on the Web, much better than the dedicated software.  And lastly, through all of this I have always been a fairly bleeding edge gamer and first person shooters are just getting better and better -- remember when DOOM and Wolfenstein first came out?  And all the movies, tv shows and music that one wants is online.  It's just a matter of whether one wants to pay for it or not.

Now to our hobby.  I found my car in 2000 on the Net, parts would have been impossible to get without gobs of time and luck, bless eBay.  First bbs and then usenet and finally Craigslist provided some of the most interesting and exciting personal encounters one could ever wish for.  And on and on, Kim.

     

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Back me up on this Kim.

WestLaw and Lexis - freakin lifesavers!  If I had to look all that caselaw up in books, I'd eat the barrel of a gun.

[last426]

Back me up on this Kim.

WestLaw and Lexis - freakin lifesavers!  If I had to look all that caselaw up in books, I'd eat the barrel of a gun.

In general I agree.  I post this only for those interested in the nuts and bolts (read bs) of legal research.

There is a slight downside, though not a big one.  The issue with both is that they are so binary, you either get what you are looking for or miss it.  And if you miss it, you'll never know that "it" existed or how close you came.  I hope there is some sort of analog solution in the future.  Here's what I mean.  When I use a digest like West's Federal Digest (you may not have used this yet or if you have you may not recognize its worth) searching West headnotes on a particular subject, in book form I have page after page of compiled headnotes.  Quickly scanning them often "suggests" other legal words, answers, authority and approaches that I may have not considered.  If I research them on Westlaw, (searching headnotes is a very, very useful research tool), it is hit or miss and too cumbersome to scan though still valuable.  Other than that, though, online research is great and since you can do it from home, a lifesaver (read timesaver).

By the way, I doubt they even teach it anymore, but we used to Shepardize cases (to make sure that the case had not been overuled by a more recent case) using three separate books, a hardback, a paperback, and a weekly sent out booklet.  And you were supposed to shepardize every case in a brief on the day before you filed it to make sure it was still good law.   That, my man, was tedious to the nth degree.  As to eating the barrel of a gun, to many first year is enough to tempt that.  Hey, almost time for the finals -- good luck and kick butt.  Kim

[Vainglory, Esq.]

They Shepardize online now too.

Sweeeeet.

[dkn1997]

I did most of the work on my charger starting about 10 years ago.  If These chatrooms, etc.. were popular back then, my charger would be very different.  as it is, everything I have done in the last 5 years has been heavily influenced by the internet.

here are a few things on my car that never would have happened without the internet:

-130 amp denso alternator
-recurved distributor/demon carb
-3 point belts
-port efi (still collecting parts)

Things that happened before I cruiesed the web:

-Be cool radiator (waste of time)
-Edelbrock carb (pretty good, though)
-Did not do a stroker like I wanted (combination of very expensive kits, cheapest one then was 2800 bucks.)
-iron heads (well, cannot blame lack of internet for that, they were not out yet)  put 750 bucks into my iron heads, ouch!!
-16" torque thrust II's (that one worked out ok)
-KYB gas adjusts (suck)

[Todd Wilson]

It has really impacted my life both personally and professionally.  Skip to the last paragraph is you don't want to read a bunch of boring Net stuff that I wrote just to keep for my memoirs.

I was doing computers and bbs's long before the Net became popular with a 300 baud modem for goodness' sake way before any graphics.  I was using elm and Pine for email and some obscure usenet reader -- there was no Web.  Then came law school and there was dedicated software to use Westlaw and Lexis as research tools.  We still did mainly book legal research but both Westlaw and Lexis strongly tried to snag future lawyers to use their products.  I graduated in 90 and around 92 or so along came the web.  Used an old software program called links to surf and there were no graphics.  Finally Mosaic came along and everyone went to a link in England to look at a real time coffee pot sometimes being used.  Mosaic turned into Netscape, Microsoft decided to ignore the Web, and wham, it grew and grew with graphics all over but no real decent security.

Pine and Elm!  HAHA!  I remember those also!  I set up a computer  at my aunts law firm she worked at. They got this new computer in special for that westlaw to dial in.


Todd

[19Charger68]

For me, it has become a wonderful place to obtain information, both at work and in my hobbies.  It has certainly made my job easier and made me more efficient.  As far as my cars go, I love having this site and others at my fingertips when I have a question or can help someone else with theirs.  Besides that, this site is just pretty much fun!

[bull]

[Nacho-RT74]

HAHAHA... yea bull that could it be another way to enjoy the net