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I ended last week with a short post I'm still thinking about. That post was about bookmarking, and a bygone era of the internet in which bookmarking played a big and perhaps vital role. I think about things like bookmarking a lot because I think about the internet a lot. I've thought about the internet a lot since at least the early 1990s. Back then I was messing around on bulletin board systems and trying to find other likeminded folks to talk about computers with. Back then there was only really one guy.
Sidebar: That guy and I have been friends since 1988. He took me to a Blue Jays game last month. He reads this blog.
Anyway, I can't speak to what everyone is talking about when they talk about bAcK wHeN tHe InTeRnEt WaS gOoD, but when I talk about bAcK wHeN tHe InTeRnEt WaS gOoD I'm talking about the pre-surveillance, non-algorithmic internet, which, by extension, necessarily means the internet before social media was the dominant expression of the internet experience.
Related: I've been reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death because it seems especially relevant to my/our plight. More on that tomorrow, or some other day this week.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch do
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🌷 now
Be good to yourself.
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