I'm chatting with a junior high school student who is working on a journal detailing what's been going on with bin Laden since Sept. 11. She hasn't kept up with it and told me that she has about a month left to chronicle. I innocently asked if she was referencing newspapers in her attempt to get her facts straight, and she told me that she's using the CNN timeline.

And that's when I told her that when I was in school, the internet hadn't even been invented yet (ok you pedants - it wasn't invented so that I could use it). I stopped short of telling her that, until I turned 21 and went away to college, I did all my papers on a typewriter ... and that I had to walk to school ... uphill both ways ... in the snow ... hopping on one foot to keep the other warm ...

I feel so old.