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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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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"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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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.1 reply 0 retweets 27 likesShow 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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Haven't books and newspapers gone through several cycles of getting better before getting worse, with some variance by place?
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