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Agreed. Maybe its rose-tinted goggles for me, but I feel like the internet was a better place (and encouraged a healthy relationship with technology) when it wa

Agreed. Maybe its rose-tinted goggles for me, but I feel like the internet was a better place (and encouraged a healthy relationship with technology) when it was a place you "went" instead of something thats with you all the time, always connected. Using the computer, or getting online required setting aside a block of time, and physically going to a desk (or library/computer lab). It didn't follow you when you were done, you shutdown the computer and went on with your life. There was a clear separation of online and irl, those identities weren't merged yet. It was very task focused. Yeah, I still got on the family computer and just browsed around for an hour, but for the most part it was something I got on to do something specific, as a tool, not an extension of my daily life.

aleph_minus_one 6mo ago
> Maybe its rose-tinted goggles for me, but I feel like the internet was a better place (and encouraged a healthy relationship with technology) when it was a place you "went" instead of something thats with you all the time, always connected. In my experience the difference was rather that a lot of internet users of this generation were radically pro-privacy, and very opposed to any centralized service (they were willing to teach you a lot about setting up your own internet applications, websites or web applications under the promise that you don't use a centralized web platform and you delete your accounts there).