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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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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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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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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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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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.Show this thread -
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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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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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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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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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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