Party poopers.) I found myself getting sucked in last winter, thanks to recommendations from readers, some of my intern's links and some great finds on various sites/blogs like Fark, Deadspin, Basketball Jones and SportsByBrooks. (Well, except for SNL sketches - NBC has blocked those for now. But I watched all of those clips in the span of two hours last week. I never thought I would see Michael Jackson's initial moonwalk during "Motown 25" again (hard to believe it was such a huge deal at the time) the watershed Stan Jonathan-Pierre Bouchard fight the ridiculous Michael Jackson-Lisa Marie Presley kiss a Boston fan being brave enough to walk through the Yankee Stadium bleachers dressed in Sox gear (too many obscenities involved for me to provide the link) an ancient and somewhat deranged Iron Sheik threatening to sodomize various wrestlers (can't link to that either) Fonzie jumping the shark (literally) or even David Letterman's heartfelt monologue right after the 9/11 attacks. YouTube brings past memories to life and gives you new ones. For instance, last week I was watching a YouTube clip of Rowdy Roddy Piper smashing a coconut against Superfly Snuka's skull on YouTube and marveling at the magnitude of the moment: Not that it was a defining TV moment of my adolescence, but that I only needed to type in the words "Piper's Pit" on YouTube's search engine and the clip popped right up on my laptop. But YouTube ranks among the greatest Internet developments ever, right up there with iTunes, Napster, free porn and e-mails with "Vegas?" in the subject heading. There's always some new way to kill time. I pay my bills online, follow stocks, buy DVDs and books, argue about the Celtics with complete strangers on a message board, send streaming video of my kid back home to my parents, get almost all my sports information, keep in touch with dozens and dozens of family members, friends, acquaintances and co-workers every week. Then there's every moment Roddy Piper was on TV.Īfter a decade of watching the Internet change everyone's lives (including mine), it never ceases to amaze me.
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