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10:21am 14 Feb 2012 I don't need to tell you all how disgustingly addicted I am to the internet - I get enough comments about that. I love that if something important happens anywhere in the world it is likely I will know about it rather fast. Blah blah blah get out more blah blah, most of the time it's checking a few things on my phone or I'm at work. Anyway, my point is I didn't go online from last Thursday to Monday. I was at Camp A Low Hum , (CALH) and I had my phone but decided to leave it off. I didn't miss it until the drive home, when I started to wonder if anything major had happened. Whitney Houston was the only big news I seem to have missed, along with about half of the Grammys. Usually I would feel pretty disconnected from my friends if I was offline all weekend - most of our night-time plans happen via group Facebook chat, but of course I was with half of them at the festival anyway. CALH had even created a "real Twitter room" (see photo) where I could scrawl how much I was enjoying so and so on a Post-it note. I didn't end up actually using real Twitter, but it was hella funny. I kind of wanted to tweet a few times, mostly to #humblebrag a little about amazing, amazing music ( Hngghh + more hnghh ) but it was never a real compulsion. My cellphone camera is horrible; I was taking plenty of pictures on my DSLR but you can't upload them straight away, so there was none of that "look how cool the place I am at is" tweets that needed sending. Coming back on Monday, the internet was of course better than ever, filled with op-eds/blog posts/ Cracked lists for me to gorge on. I only really do it when I go away with friends or family - even when I'm out all weekend I like to check Twitter in the morning, but having a little time away from the Internet can be a glorious thing. Do you often take time away? Is it ridiculous that I should even blog about such a small time period away from something that isn't even important? Did I miss an awesome new meme? Fill me in.

Henry Cooke is a 19-year-old design student/nerd who lives and breathes the internet - which he believes is mankind's crowning achievement. He blogs about the trends and technologies of the net, translating the babble and buzzwords so they make sense to regular folk.

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