#990 The seconds between connecting to the internet and it actually working

We're all familiar with this, but you may not realize that this actually does slightly annoy you. You turn on your Mac's airport or turn on your inferior PC's internet port. You immediately go to any website (facebook) to see if it's working and this, or something similar to this, is the all-too-familiar screen that appears.

Ugh. No need to panic, not that you ever do; you've been here a million times. You're just not connected to the internet yet. You know the drill. Refresh. Nothing. Refresh. Nothing. Refresh, refresh, refresh, nothing. Refresh, nothing. Refresh, bingo, connected. Some of you will go with the bookmark strategy, where you just click different easily accessible bookmarks until one works, signifying a succesful connection to the internet. Others will go with the repetition strategy, which consists of leaving your cursor in the url bar up top, and going through the click-enter repetition. All are different, acceptable strategies of refreshing the internet for the seconds between connecting to the internet and it actually working.

It's amazing how many times you can refresh a page in less than 10 seconds. But you know what? Those 10 seconds are 10 seconds of your life that you'll never get back. Come on internet gods, you're better than that.

It's just slightly annoying.