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It's weird that no one remembers the world before the Internet. I mean, they do, but it's now more of a memory of a memory of a memory so no one really recalls what it was really like and what things happened, only fuzzy retellings of the story.

8/6/26, 8:21 pm2 reposts26 likes

B.T. Franklin

@btfranklin.info

9 June

I remember it. In some ways, it was a perfect world to be a child/teen in. Your world really was very local, very physical, or what you imagined. Current-aged me would hate it, though. Access to information was EXTREMELY challenging and limited compared with today.

Spooky Key 🎃 🗝🦊✅

@keytryer.net

8 June

This is why nothing made today that banks on nostalgia for things before the Internet really feels like those things, and instead feels more like a vague re-copied idea of those things.

Spooky Key 🎃 🗝🦊✅

@keytryer.net

8 June

What's odd to me is that the Internet was supposed to democratize access to information such that the opposite would be true, but instead it created a divide between what's directly archived and told online and what the world was like before the Internet.

Spooky Key 🎃 🗝🦊✅

@keytryer.net

8 June

I guess there are books and magazines that describe the world before the Internet? But most of the information from those sources, rather than being accessible from those sources, is also laundered through articles and information published online and then re-launders of those.

Spooky Key 🎃 🗝🦊✅

@keytryer.net

8 June

inb4 "this happens with every generation" but I really think that things accessible directly after the Internet are more "real" than the culture that existed before, which exists in a separate space that most of modernity has forgotten and continues to retell more vague each time

Emotional Support Monster

@lightspill.bsky.social

8 June

This reminds me more than anything of a scene in a silly movie where everything was on computers…apart from one thick tome: The Book of Old Knowledge.

Andres Guadamuz

@technollama.bsky.social

8 June

I really do remember it, it was great in many ways, not so great in others. Waiting in line to use a public phone and listening to people's conversations is something so fresh in my head that it feels like it happened yesterday.

Singularity's Bounty e/CC

@catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com

8 June

related: detective murder mystery from the 70s. One scene the detective was on a hill in a San Francisco neighborhood He was either in danger or needed to contact someone--I forget--but *no cell phones** It struck me he was in the middle of this dense urban environment, completely isolated