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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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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The transition from exploration to exploitation was sad to watch.
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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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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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