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No, there is something decisively different about today's internet. I'm not from that time, having been born after the turn of the millennium, but I also feel a

No, there is something decisively different about today's internet. I'm not from that time, having been born after the turn of the millennium, but I also feel a sense of excitement when I read these things from the past. This spirit is not present in today's corporatized, sterile internet. Everyone is trying to build a business on the internet now, so much so that there is no place left for fun anymore.

mgdlbp 4y ago
You might find these perspectives interesting: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495517 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mkK7s--I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mkK7s--I0 — not the video, the unexpectedly sincere description. Excerpt: [...] (retvrn to Konata) Hey if I’ve been pretending it’s 2011 for the last decade so can you. (le verboten maymay arrow)you will never watch “Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 1- Part 1” for the first time ever again Or were you more indie, and instead hit up “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya English Dub Episode 1 [1/3]”? God what I’d do for my exact watch history from 10 years ago… I think I jotted down the date and time, down to the morning I discovered Miku, at least I have that… Miku lead to MMD (tutorials), which lead to Caramelldansen (heh), the top results after searching that were Haruhi (naturally), and then some time later I was led back to Haruhi. What good times… . I think the most profound think I’ve realised in life, after endlessly trying to recapture so many emotions, is that it’s not just a matter of being in the same place, with the same devices, watching the same media, at the same time of day, during the same season, it still won’t be the same. Even with the same old friend group, it’ll be different, because not only are they all different people to who they were at the time, so are you. You can never be that person again, and you can never experience it the same way again. That’s why nostalgia’s such a blessing, you can still feel things the same way, not by experiencing it again, but simply by remembering it. I was talking to a friend, they said they got really into LOTR when they were in their late teens, read all the books cover to cover, absolutely loved them, and that they know damn well they’ll never read them again. I think they understood the same thing. Truth be told I think I’ve only watched all of Haruhi through three times, Yuki-chan maybe twice, Disappearance twice, and Lucky Star once, and those viewings of Haruhi have been spread pretty evenly over the last decade, I’m not sure I’ll watch them again for a while. But I know I will watch them again. Preferably from the rooftop of an apartment complex in Nishinomiya…
- myth_drannon 4y ago
  Thanks! The first link is a deeply profound description of the feelings.
icedchai 4y ago
I grew up with the 90's internet. I was a young teenager when I first got online back in 1991 or so. Part of it is looking at those days through rose colored glasses. The other part is that as the internet become commercially viable, enough to go mainstream, the "spirit" simply got diluted as more and more people came online. Most of the users of the early Internet were academics, hackers, nerds, and various weirdos. Today, it's everyday people. There's still plenty of weird stuff out there, it's just a much smaller percentage of the content.

mgdlbp 4y ago

You might find these perspectives interesting: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495517 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mkK7s--I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mkK7s--I0 — not the video, the unexpectedly sincere description. Excerpt: [...] (retvrn to Konata) Hey if I’ve been pretending it’s 2011 for the last decade so can you. (le verboten maymay arrow)you will never watch “Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 1- Part 1” for the first time ever again Or were you more indie, and instead hit up “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya English Dub Episode 1 [1/3]”? God what I’d do for my exact watch history from 10 years ago… I think I jotted down the date and time, down to the morning I discovered Miku, at least I have that… Miku lead to MMD (tutorials), which lead to Caramelldansen (heh), the top results after searching that were Haruhi (naturally), and then some time later I was led back to Haruhi. What good times… . I think the most profound think I’ve realised in life, after endlessly trying to recapture so many emotions, is that it’s not just a matter of being in the same place, with the same devices, watching the same media, at the same time of day, during the same season, it still won’t be the same. Even with the same old friend group, it’ll be different, because not only are they all different people to who they were at the time, so are you. You can never be that person again, and you can never experience it the same way again. That’s why nostalgia’s such a blessing, you can still feel things the same way, not by experiencing it again, but simply by remembering it. I was talking to a friend, they said they got really into LOTR when they were in their late teens, read all the books cover to cover, absolutely loved them, and that they know damn well they’ll never read them again. I think they understood the same thing. Truth be told I think I’ve only watched all of Haruhi through three times, Yuki-chan maybe twice, Disappearance twice, and Lucky Star once, and those viewings of Haruhi have been spread pretty evenly over the last decade, I’m not sure I’ll watch them again for a while. But I know I will watch them again. Preferably from the rooftop of an apartment complex in Nishinomiya…

myth_drannon 4y ago
Thanks! The first link is a deeply profound description of the feelings.

icedchai 4y ago

I grew up with the 90's internet. I was a young teenager when I first got online back in 1991 or so. Part of it is looking at those days through rose colored glasses. The other part is that as the internet become commercially viable, enough to go mainstream, the "spirit" simply got diluted as more and more people came online. Most of the users of the early Internet were academics, hackers, nerds, and various weirdos. Today, it's everyday people. There's still plenty of weird stuff out there, it's just a much smaller percentage of the content.