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What if a young person wants the old internet back?
by manuelmoreale 3y ago
What if a young person wants the old internet back?
- vaylian 3y agoThis. There is something timeless about the '90s internet. Personal websites were invitations to visit someone's digital home and have a look around. The designs were quirky and personal, not standardized and sleek.
- spacecadet 3y agoexcept everything is this way now too... design post iPhone is a lazy subconscious push toward boring, in the guise of culture, but is really just greed stripping culture out of everything to maximize profits.
- bowsamic 3y agoThen that isn’t nostalgia
- sublinear 3y agoThe "old internet" definitely had the same feeling of malaise hanging over it.
- UberFly 3y agoIt had hopeful excitement hanging over it. A lot of wonder too. The malaise came later.
- Almondsetat 3y agoWhat does a young person know about the old interney to want it back?
- xandrius 3y agoThat's called second-hand nostalgia or "sehnsucht" to be fancy.
- sevagh 3y agoBorn in the wrong generation types