As I was riding home on the bus the other day, I was thinking the role that the Internet has played in my life (at least in the last year or so).

• I’m currently doing an internship in DC that I found and applied for online.
• Most of my internship is done doing online research.
• The apartment I’m living in, I found posted on craigslist by my roommate.
• I’m making some extra cash by doing web design for someone in Madison, WI.
• Every couple of days I get a new movie in the mail from Netflix.
• I use Skype, Gmail, Facebook and AIM to communicate with my friends and family back home.
• I check how much money I have in my checking account online.
• I’m in a NCAA Tournament pool with friends from home at CBS Sportsline.
• I get practically all of my news online.
• I’m currently in a frisbee league with people I found on Meetup.org.
• I navigate the DC Metro/Bus system using their Web site.
• Most of the TV I watch is downloaded with bittorrent.

Essentially, without the Internet I’d be unemployed, poor, homeless, socially isolated, and bored.  Or something like that.