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I think it actually is different now. Oh yes it is different now. You know what's different? That you can be a housebound lonely widow and be able to share you
by frossie 15y ago
I think it actually is different now.
Oh yes it is different now. You know what's different? That you can be a housebound lonely widow and be able to share your needlework tips with somebody an ocean away. That you can be gay in a small town and not think you are the only person who feels like that in the world. That you can be a kid in a remote village, and sitting outside the closed town hall, leech the wi-fi so you can look at the space station video from NASA. That you can be a parent whose kid is having chemotherapy and can find people who can tell you how to nurture its failing appetite.
I don't care how many money-grubbing heartless villains (real or imaginary) there are on the internet, if someone thinks its net contribution to mankind is negative, they must have led a lucky life.
- Groxx 15y agoSince I just found it, and it's more CS focused, and it resonates: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825480 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825480 (especially bignoggins' reply) Individual empowerment seems to me to have grown astronomically in recent years. Do we really want to rewind time back to Usenet years?