From the Age of Dinosaurs

I am an internet junkie. This is obvious to most of the people who know me online. The number of webpages I click through a day is likely measurable in units bigger than I can count on my fingers. One of the things most of my viewers probably don't know about me is when it comes to the daily news, I'm still a throw-back to the old print forms of media.

I have had delivered and read the morning newspaper almost every day, save vacations and days the paper isn't published, since I was a teenager. To me, there is nothing quite the same as leisurely leafing through the morning paper over breakfast and a cup of coffee. The ability to be able to sit anywhere, sift through the pages in any order you want. Read half a story, go on to the next, and return to where you left off at any time.

I remember when the paper boy was part of the our culture. Walking down the street, you would see a paper on most door steps. These days the paper boy on a bicycle has long been replaced in most cities by adults driving cars earning spare change. The front porches with newspapers the rare exception rather than the norm.

With my newspaper subscription, I receive an e-mail early every morning with a link to the online version of the day's paper. The link usually remains unvisited while I wait for the morning paper to arrive on my doorstep.