The September That Never Ended was the best thing that ever happened to The Internet.
Yeah, it brought all those obnoxious tourists, with their Hawai'ian shirts, straw hats, loud voices, and trash.
But they also brought money. Lots of money.
That's when this whole "make lots of money in tech" thing started.
Should be an interesting story.
I do miss the internet of the 1990s, but we can never go back there. What we can do, though, is fight for more open platforms.
Can't forget this https://spacehey.com/
We live in an environment where most users don't leave the safety of facebook/twitter/instgram/reddit. Advanced users are running darkweb sites and doing a number of things the average person isn't.
The world hasn't changed much. Are you seeking out and supporting the unusual or are you waiting for it to come to facebook/instagram first to tell you about it?
It’s kind of like, in the Nineteenth Century, large parts of the world were still unexplored, so authors like H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, could write books like King Solomon’s Mines, or The Lost World, and people could sort of believe “it could happen.”
These days, we know our world much better. We can call up satellite views of Base Camp, on Mt. Everest.
But we are now looking much farther for “it could happen.”