That’s the second sentence. And that’s all only one sentence. I’ve re-read it multiple times and I’m still scratching my head at most of it.
Yeah I don’t think I have enough working memory to remember how the sentence started by the time my dyslexic neurodivergent ass has reached the end of the sentence.
It’s unfortunately reading as word salad for me.
My experience with the internet as someone born almost the exact same time and place as the author was that once you found your space, it really was a great community. Finding that community was the difficult step, not as difficult as finding community offline, but certainly with more potential to stumble upon gore and grotesque imagery that I can still remember, 25 years later, thanks 4chan. Not much has changed in that regard, there’s weird shit everywhere.
Given the authors relatively young age in the grand scheme of the internet, I wonder how much of the sentiment they’re expressing is just pure nostalgia.
The internet did feel better back then. But so did life. Because I was a teenager with no real problems and no real sense of what was happening in the world.
The internet was novel and new, many of us felt like we were part of something, that we were building and creating something. Now the internet feels like it controls us, companies and corporations are building something that we must participate in whether we like it or not, lest we be left behind economically, socially, educationally, etc.
But it’s all personal perception. Federation and decentralisation has changed my perception and I have a lot more hope for the future of the internet, it’s feeling a little bit more like old times.
Yeah I don’t think I have enough working memory to remember how the sentence started by the time my dyslexic neurodivergent ass has reached the end of the sentence.
It’s unfortunately reading as word salad for me.
My experience with the internet as someone born almost the exact same time and place as the author was that once you found your space, it really was a great community. Finding that community was the difficult step, not as difficult as finding community offline, but certainly with more potential to stumble upon gore and grotesque imagery that I can still remember, 25 years later, thanks 4chan. Not much has changed in that regard, there’s weird shit everywhere.
Given the authors relatively young age in the grand scheme of the internet, I wonder how much of the sentiment they’re expressing is just pure nostalgia.
The internet did feel better back then. But so did life. Because I was a teenager with no real problems and no real sense of what was happening in the world.
The internet was novel and new, many of us felt like we were part of something, that we were building and creating something. Now the internet feels like it controls us, companies and corporations are building something that we must participate in whether we like it or not, lest we be left behind economically, socially, educationally, etc.
But it’s all personal perception. Federation and decentralisation has changed my perception and I have a lot more hope for the future of the internet, it’s feeling a little bit more like old times.