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Before the Internet
But like, the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world. TikTok is especially good at that. But I do think the internet used to be a lot weirder. Certainly more specific. It used to be a place you’d go for a specific interest. Now it is ... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
réka added
the internet actually did use to be a place - it was limited to the family desktop, and we could walk away from it and leave it behind — how freeing
McKinney is right: You could just go out and find it, but really, you had to. As is true in so many life lessons, the work is the point. And the internet used to be more work to experience. Today, it’s more work to avoid
What I Want From The Internet - Christopher Butler ☼
Hrisikesh Medhi added
Perhaps it’s just nostalgia, but despite having “little to hide,” I recall a better way to use the internet. My interest in the internet as a kid was entirely exploratory, rather than performative. Bored out of my suburban small-town mind, I wanted to play Starcraft and learn random things and chat on IRC with new people around the world who shared... See more
Sarah Guo • When we design our identities from scratch
sari added
Most people just weren’t ready to live online. Perhaps most importantly, using the internet was still a novel, infrequent activity. Unlike today, where most of us now spend several hours online daily – back then, it was something you’d “turn on” a few times a week at most.
Chris Rempel • PART 1: THE INTERNET IS HAVING A KODAK MOMENT
sari added
I must hope that those who barely remember life before the internet, or never knew it at all, will find their way through the dazzle and disappointments of technology, the seductions and the traps. I have to trust that, as they await future wonders, they will also look back to see the world as it was before this moment of the internet, and find gui... See more
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Keely Adler added
When I first got access to the internet as a kid, the very first thing I did was to find people who liked the same things I liked — science fiction novels and TV shows, Dungeons and Dragons, and so on. In the early days, that was what you did when you got online — you found your people , whether on Usenet or IRC or Web forums or MUSHes and MUDs. R
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