Preserving Via the Net

One of the nice things about the internet that doesn’t get enough notoriety is that whole groups of people can stay in contact with each other through the years. It doesn’t really require much effort. It might take a little work to find the people, but once that’s done, it’s easy street.

This year my high school class is having its 45^th reunion. I keep in contact with about two dozen of them, albeit this contact might be only once or twice a year. I know of the whereabouts of well over one hundred classmates, although some of them are now underground, so to speak. Forty years after they graduated, I’m not sure if my parents could have recalled the name of a single schoolmate. As far as I know, my mom and dad lost track of all their high school chums the day they graduated and got their diplomas.

My last blog entry someone actually left a comment, believe it or not. You can go read it if you want. The comment was written by some idiot named Bob Sayre. I went to high school with this dingbat. Both Sayre and I were no more than 18 years old then. Now we’re 62. We were not best of buddies in high school. We did not hang-out together. I never went to Sayre’s house after school, and he was lucky enough never to have gone to mine. But we were solid casual friends. We would occasionally bark wisecracks at each other in various classrooms. Now all these years later -45 years, to be exact- we are doing the same thing via the internet.

People can complain about the internet, how it has its hate sites and how it oozes pornography, but in most respects the Net is pretty cool. Just take Sayre and me for example. All of these years later two morons are still ribbing each other. The internet changes many things, but it also works to keep some things the same, which is not an altogether bad thing. 

Now, I'd go back and reply to Sayre's comment, but I have already called him an idiot and a dingbat. If I say much more, that asswipe will start whining.