Surfing the Internet is one of my favorite hobbies. Luckily, it’s also part of my job. As a product of the Information Age, I look to my computer more and more for the answers—both trivial and necessary—for which I’m searching.

How is “rancorous” spelled? I go to dictionary.com for definitions, usage, and word variations. For buying movie tickets, I check reviews or previews at bollywood.ac. What show’s playing next? I go to www.inoxmovies.com and can see the whole schedule. We already know or make of use online booking facilities of train tickets, flight tickets, hotel bookings or holidays packages….

Digital Signatures allows us to do e-filing, e-tendering and more… Banks are almost online, allowing to make online transactions… Gone are the days where we see huge gathering of brokers outside stock exchanges…all because of online trading facilities at our own home or office…

I send birthday gifts and other gifts online to all over India or abroad easily from sites like www.hindustanlink.com (of course it my site only) or from rediff.com / indiatimes.com.

Search online and have some cool new music within minutes. How did the Yuvraj
do on Sunday? I can check the score—or follow along online—at cricinfo.com.

Not too long ago, finding that last bit of information meant waiting through 25 minutes of local TV news or waiting until the next day to read the article in the newspaper. Not any more.

Times have indeed changed. Now everyting is just a click away….