There are young people who don't remember what the internet used to be like.
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There are young people who don't remember what the internet used to be like. They can't remember it because they were too young when it existed.
They don't know that it was for a time, for some people*, better. And they don't know how that better internet was quashed and never really reached them.
* If you have nostalgia for how, for example, google search used to work I think you need to grapple with the fact that only a small slice of the public ever experienced it in that way.
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There are young people who don't remember what the internet used to be like. They can't remember it because they were too young when it existed.
They don't know that it was for a time, for some people*, better. And they don't know how that better internet was quashed and never really reached them.
* If you have nostalgia for how, for example, google search used to work I think you need to grapple with the fact that only a small slice of the public ever experienced it in that way.
I would like to tell a parable about how STEM and tech gatekeeping has given us the landscape that we see now. But, it's not that simple. And the insularity of tech nerds is a small (annoying) force compared to these large companies who want us all neatly monetized paying them our monthly tithes for propaganda.
But maybe if we let more people into the club we'd be stronger, you know?
