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I remember when I thought the future would look like the Third Dimension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBZ4otTonw the age of the INTERNET
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I feel like I kept up with the trends really well, I grew up on the internet, spent my life on the internet, I remember the war with ebaums and how that was such a big deal at the time, I saw the birth of youtube, I was involved in ytmnd back when that was somehow relevant... I never thought I'd hit the point where I felt old, but something in the past, 4? Years? The internet suddenly changed and I'm so confused by it. There are teenagers now making livelihoods by broadcasting and monetizing their entire lives, websites have been replaced with apps, the internet went from a thousand weird tiny islands to a handful of corporate-policed super-cities and I did not make the transition into it very well. I don't actually feel like I want to make the transition into it. That article about the TikTok house is just, I cannot understand that, and I hate that. I really didn't think I'd ever have to feel old, I thought I'd be able to keep up. I'm old, and I no longer have legal rights, tbh. When I say I grew up on the internet, I mean I grew up having a dozen alts, fastidiously controlling what I said with what name, because the idea of anyone being able to know anything about you was super not good. Now everyone grows up documenting their life on public media?? It's alien to me, the world has become alien, and it's alien in a way I don't want to gain understanding of. So I mod and play Morrowind, the same game I've been playing for 20 years, because that's the best familiarity I can get. I first played it when I was graduating highschool, in that liminal space where the future is at its most vague and promising, so other than being a really solid game still, it has a lot of that sort of... bittersweet nostalgia? Dramatic irony?
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