I used to live in the Dark Ages when there was no internet. I love the 21st century.

Many years ago before the internet was invented I never imagined my living room could be an international chess club. I thought I would have to get in my car and drive to a chess club every time I wanted to play the game.

Just now from my living room, I played games against Milano, Italy and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I used to have to punch a chess clock after every move. These days the computer does that for me. If I wanted to try to force a draw by repeating the same position 3 times, I used to have to remember the positions and then claim a draw, but the computer automatically claims the draw for me because that's the preference I have set it to.

If I wanted to buy something I would have to waste my time going to a store and not be able to find what I needed. These days I can buy anything I want with a few mouse clicks at Amazon.com. I don't own a car because I don't need one, thanks to Amazon.

My most favorite websites:

https://lichess.org/ Where I play chess for free and where I use the free computer analysis to find out why I was killed.

https://www.amazon.com/ Where I buy stuff.

https://www.google.com/ Looking things up. I often use it to find what I want at Amazon.

"Google Search by voice" I use this to find stuff by asking for it instead of typing it. It's very useful when I forget how to spell a word or when I forget what the word is.

https://client.schwab.com/Login/SignOn/CustomerCenterLogin.aspx? Where I buy shares of AT&T for the wonderful dividend income.

https://www.wikipedia.org/ The best encyclopedia in the world and it's free.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/ I have a Google spreadsheet for my checking account which I have been using for 11 years. It's a beautiful thing.

I have a private google blog where I keep tons of information I need.

http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/ My totally free google blog where I waste lots of time writing stuff nobody reads.