I agree. It was more harmless when it was just wasting late nights in 1994 on whip.isca.uiowa.edu.I remember when I first was introduced to the Internet. I was a freshman at UConn, 1994. Had to go to one of the Mac or PC labs in another building. But I could look up scores on espnet.sportszone.com, or visit comcentral.com and read the joke of the day, or look up Shakespeare for class. It was all pretty cool, and now I didn't need to sift through those bulky encyclopedias.
Now I think the Internet is well on its way to being the thing that destroys mankind.