new internet

The internet really w as better, back before it turned into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”

We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual. This experience and confluence of forces is what I call post-individualism — a term intended to capture the ways computers and the web have changed our sense of self and how society is changing in response.

big tip for people like me who forget things exist if they aren't directly in front of you: add websites you like to your desktop/homescreen. then opening your phone is like opening a fully stocked fridge instead of a largely empty one with three rotten dishes in it

Because of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case in human history until now.

I recognize these attempts, yet I know for a fact that the internet — this home and caretaker and teacher and friend will never return to its prior state. Everything only experiences infancy once. But in the same way you return to your hometown after years of absence and see it evolve and reconstitute itself, the vestiges of beauty on the web have... See more