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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

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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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      2000 lines of code No comments No user defined funtions Awwoooooouuuuuuuuu
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    9. 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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    10. 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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      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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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6

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

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        3. 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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        4. 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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        5. 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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        6. 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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        1. Jeff Richman  🎄 ☃️‏ @jcrichman Oct 6
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          The transition from exploration to exploitation was sad to watch.

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        2. Fifty, Foul, A Sly Drunk‏ @FunkyDuffy Oct 6
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          Haven't books and newspapers gone through several cycles of getting better before getting worse, with some variance by place?

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6
          Replying to @FunkyDuffy

          that seems possible

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        1. Bay Bruth - Master of the Lotus Punch  🦞‏ @BennyBandito Oct 6
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          Forums fall into that pitfall with a form of O'Sullivan's law mixed in. That first generation of users that trek off to college start the decline as you got Colbert talking points mixed with Chomsky being spammed. Funny and smart = elevation to mod, then the purges begin.

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