I was thinking of the same parallel with AOL.

I remember going to a friend's house who had AOL, and I kept looking for IE to surf, and buried there in the middle of that awful morass that was the AOL browser? homepage? was this button that reads "Go onto the Internet". And I'm thinking to myself, Aren't I already on the internet, duh? Another friend of mine said, "It's like you're leaving a building"!

To the people who have commented in this thread and essentially said, "It can only happen to them, not me," my response would be, If it happens to enough of them, it will happen to you too by default.

That is to say, if you inhabit the same world as the people who control the world, you will by necessity live under their rule systems, and their habits and methods. You will inevitibly be absorbed into their way of thinking. If you doubt that, ask yourself why so many people you know don't question being told what to do and when to do it.