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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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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o wise robot how then should one Learn to Code
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