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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      a brief subjective internet history shall follow belowhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1445631895698505728 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      earlier i googled to find out what happened to a racism subreddit and the top result was a discussion of that subreddit in something called /r/rage in 2014 and it was both remarkably chill and aggressively pro free speech 2014 wasnt that long ago. hmmm
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      im going to be wrong about some dates and you can decide whether its deliberate obfuscation or whether im just fucking it up in my recollection

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      1990: my parents get a shareware catalogue (you could order diskettes with shareware for cheap, and shipped to you) and I discover Commander Keen and id software. incredible stuff. played it on an 286 machine my dad picked up used for $200. had a VGA monitor, important

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      1992: i get access to the internet for the first time through my parents' university account. i can barely read, but they give me directions to log onto GOPHER via DOS I use Archie + Veronica to look for information about stars which id recently learned came in different colors

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      I also had my first encounter with internet porn via some bizarre story an undergrad had left in a directory somewhere, about a good female plug going to a bad part of town where she was taken advantage of by a ruffian male plug to this day i dont know what he was getting at

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      1994: the web exists. i spend hours watching my 28.8k modem, monopolizing our phone line, praying the connection wouldnt disconnect before my warcraft 2 demo download (10MB) completed, which would mean i would have to start from scratch

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      around this time i encounter an early blog, a warcraft 2 site and also personal log of someone going by the improbable name of Shlonglor i wont reveal his name but i understand he went on to join blizzard on the strength of his web design and enthusiasm

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 5

      shlonglor, to the best of my knowledge, invented the concept of Smurfing on Kali, which was sort of a battlenet before battlenet his crew got too well known, so they would play with variations on "[X]Smurf" as handles to surprise and stomp randos

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

      1996: my mom gets tired of me asking for SimCity2000 and tells me that she'll get it for me if I read Moby Dick i read moby dick that summer and my mom has a week of peace we get a windows 95 machine with a pentium chip (I think 120MHz) for $1700

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          the way you ordered computers and parts in this period (as far as I know) is you would get a giant catalogue called PCShopper that was entirely ads selling hardware. it was sad to see it get thinner and thinner, later my dad gave me a budget and let me pick out everything myself

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          1997: my first MMO, Subspace amazing game. sort of like spaceship bumper cars where you also shoot bullets and bombs. could play in an arena with hundreds of others over dialup--really a feat

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          i also make my first web page, crafting the html by hand host it on angelfire its about Final Fantasy 7, composed entirely of stolen jpgs and featuring a nauseating wavy blue background my mother gets a sense that a separate Internet culture exists and it makes her nervous

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          also this year, my city is destroyed by a flood and i watch a live webcam of the river from 300 miles away it may not have been _that_ live; i think it uploaded a grainy still image every 5 minutes

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          the ubiquity of video content today is jarring when i think about it the older web was a much stiller place. I wonder how the change has affected us

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          1998: i am desperately lonely at middle school. at home i play Diablo and hang out in some high schoolers' chat trying to understand their drama i read cnn to try to understand what is happening in the balkans in real time. my interest in the world has been kindled by Durant

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          im using GameFAQs at this point as I've found out about emulators. i start jrpgs with final fantasy i on Nesticle this sort of project was what internet misfits were up topic.twitter.com/nd0u5xF9se

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          "want to play in the best-in-class emulator for NES games? just double click this deez nuts" this is the kind of incredible energy internet culture had at this pointpic.twitter.com/w8rXHbPSvq

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          2001: i remember newgrounds videos from this era. alex chiu was a popular meme. he sold aura magnets that granted the wearer immortality napster had been broken on the wheel so i think i was using kazaa to get music you could also see more architecture creeping onto the web

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          2003: shit is getting real. i think i open a facebook account. i know it wasnt launched until 04 but i distinctly remember having a fb account in fall '03 its mostly freshman using it to hook up did you know pokes still exist on facebook?

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

          i take my first programming class (c++ for scientists and engineers). it is also my last programming classhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1289968183575642112 …

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          eigenrobot @eigenrobot
          Replying to @danlistensto @liminal_warmth
          2000 lines of code No comments No user defined funtions Awwoooooouuuuuuuuu
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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          2005: i have discovered blogs. i don't know how but they are hot shit. Instapundit and sullivan are big but matty, ezra klein, mcardle are rising stars. others whose names are lost to history. i discover marginal revolution around this time and also add an economics major

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          2006: what's up with this robin hanson @bloggingheads is new and hosts all the cool kids. the talks are actually fairly good, and totally amateurish. the format had barely been invented.

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          idea. iron law of media: a medium will begin bad, get better for a while as people figure it out, then get worse over time as people get better at exploiting its formatting properties for parasitic ends

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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          i dont know that i believe this but i dont not believe it

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        17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          i don't remember when things started getting weird. facebook seemed omnipresent but not yet banal, livejournal tilted into tumblr at some point. i briefly had a twitter account in 08-10. it was a bunch of locals and we would simply coordinate where to get shitfaced after work

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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          the latter was silly but also represented the first time i was part of a community that substantially existed online it felt much more casual then, there werent all of the ingrained convoluted social conventions we have now and of course less functionality

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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          i wonder whatever happened to all of my old email accounts probably lost to time. i certainly dont have the credentials.

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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

          email addresses seem the real form of Internet identity. everything else is built on that at this point changing an email address feels like a change of character

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