A generation serves notice: It's a moving target -... -
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Published on: 1/23/2006
Last Visited: 1/23/2006
Wen-Wen Lam, 23, a marketing representative at LinkedIn.com, a professional networking site, said a colleague was bewildered by her decision not to take her laptop home one evening."He said, 'But how are you going to talk to people?' " Ms. Lam recalled. She rolled her eyes at the thought of people unable to cut the electronic umbilical cord and added that an average day of 8 to 10 hours of time spent online is "quite enough."
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Ms. Cichelli, 24, and Ms. Lam have been friends since they were 13.
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"I love Google," Ms. Lam says. The answer appears almost instantly: in computer jargon, "ping" was most likely borrowed from submarine technology and the sound that sonar makes when seeking its reflection points. No one is surprised.The answer had already been suggested by Ms. Cichelli's friend in Albany, with whom she had been text-messaging throughout much of the night.