There should be a lot more discussions of preInternet times by/for the young folks (<40 y.o.). Those of us on the bleeding edge of IT who also lived over half

There should be a lot more discussions of preInternet times by/for the young folks (<40 y.o.). Those of us on the bleeding edge of IT who also lived over half our lives in the “before days” naturally kept the best parts of preInternet culture while picking up those particular elements of digital culture that are (nearly) an absolute Good (and skipped the rest). The digital natives never knew the “before time”, and so need to make the same conscious effort to learn and integrate those preInternet wisdoms, as their forebears had made when learning digital technologies. Those preInternet lifeways are only deprecated if you tell yourselves they are deprecated. You’d be amazed how backwards compatible your 2023 life can actually be, with a little tweaking here and there. Might be worth the effort.