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A Stoic Meditation on the Non-Existence of the Internet
- code_duck 15y agoI love the basis of this article, and I adore the internet. I'm about 35 and spent half of my life with no internet. Guitar magazines taught me that Harmonic Minor scales sounded exotic and dark. People I knew in person helped me get jobs, like teachers. I met people in classes, parties and through other friends. And, I published my work in my journal, zines and the school newspaper. He's right, the internet is fantastic and improved all of these activities - mostly. Life back then wasn't all bad, to be sure. I love the amazing ability to connect to people on the internet, and the vast amount of information at our fingertips. However, I do somewhat miss the slower pace of life 20 years ago.
- KennethMyers 15y agoI'm in agreement that life was life, and it wasn't so bad. You're right. Some of the specifics, though, of my case, would be impossible without the internet. I'm sure I'd have a job. But remotely writing textbooks for a Korean company probably wouldn't have happened. (How could it have! How would we have even found each other!) I would have never developed my friendship with my bff Anissa. A lot of the most important things in my life would not have been possible before the internet. BUT - that's probably not true of everyone. I may be a weird case.
- code_duck 15y agoI work at home and on vacation seamlessly, which is marvelous, and also have made amazingly close friends across continents. I have no idea how I ever would have met those people if not for the internet, and I surely couldn't be spending hours a day on the phone with people in Russia and the UK with the old phone system! No doubt your example isn't isolated... this sort of global connection making seems to be becoming more common. I think it's going to be a really amazing force for cultural change in the next 20 years.