new internet

“these platforms make it impossible to represent your full multidimensional self... your whole self can never exist in a single space.”

Also, much like a small homestead on a hundred acres, websites were closed ecosystems and isolated. There were no social networks or marketplace platforms to tap as a firehose channel for building an audience, and there was no real mechanism for ‘going viral’.

You had to grow your traffic the old fashioned way – by asking your digital neighbors for... See more

stumbles across a pile of ash, a couple of tree stumps, and half-eaten packet of marshmallows (carefully sealed)

something awesome happened here