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Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
- 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 just the context of life and the way you communicate.
from How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis by The Atlantic
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Because that’s what it was like before the Internet. You made your own fun.
from Before the Internet by New Yorker
Dayna Carney added
With TV, we at least understood ourselves to be passive observers of the screen, but the interactive nature of the internet fostered the illusion that message boards, Discord servers, and Twitter feeds are digital “places” where we can in fact hang out. If nothing else, this is a trick that gets us to stick around longer. A better analogy for onlin
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