Still Amazed

OK, so I've been an internet addict for a couple of years now, but I'm still amazed at the information, the connections, the awesomeness of what you can find, who you can get to know, and some things you didn't want to know, that you find on the internet.

This afternoon I was multi-chatting to 3 different friends via MSN - one in Korea, one in Australia and one in the USA . At the same time I had emails in from Tanzania, China and South Africa. My blog was going out to who-knows-who and I had a webpage open where I learnt a bit about drought-gardening, while updating information booklets for work in Word. WOW!

A hundred years ago, no-one would have imagined this at all. Letters written by hand and sent by boat took months, years. Events would happen and it might take ages to make a ripple in world conciousness. Nowadays CNN's got live coverage up on their site immediately. A juicy bit of gossip, a friend in need of prayer, all spread around the world via email in seconds.

I wonder if I'll ever get over this sense of astonishment that hits me every now and then.