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I want to somehow go back to 1998 and find young me when I still believed the internet and computers would truly make us love each other more and break down national divides and bring a greater peace to the whole world and i want to punch him square in the mouth.
Also i think this might be my last Christmas. Like I will still be around but Christmas as we grow up with is no longer going to be a thing.
If it makes you feel better, my husband and I met in an online game (while we lived across international borders,) fell in love, and began dating. The game also has VR, and we explored massive chunks of the Milky Way Galaxy over many months during the pandemic :)
We're married now!
Elite: Dangerous?
Yep, Elite!
Or No Man's Sky?
That is nice to hear, I also found my wife online dating site before they went to crap and actually wanted you to find a healthy relationship instead of keeping you on the dating treadmill and thus a customer.
Which VR game is this? Just got a headset and I love space games!
It's Elite Dangerous! Play pancake mode until you get the hang of it. Once you have some experience, strap in-it's a ton of fun!
It's not young-you's fault, they had us all hooked on that potential. And it 100% had and still has that potential, it's just that the wrong people are calling the shots.
Tell you what, I'll go back with you and we can punch the ones who ruined the internet!
Yeah I mean the web is lost but the tildeverse is still a thing so that's something but it's not going to change the world only become the resistance.
Tildeverse?
It's a group of Linux and Unix shared servers around the internet where you can host a website or talk on IRC or mailing list. Some host different services like mastodon. There are webrings for different tildeverse sites. It's a community per server. It feels like back in the day when you could get access to a shell account on a sunsite at local universities.
I wholeheartedly believe nothing is lost yet! We're still around, we're still full-on "seditious" (from the perspective of Big Bucks McOildrill), we can do this!
But, yes, we do need an Underground Railroad type network for now...
Don't blame the internet for the unjust hierarchy that permeates every facet of human civilization. It is a tool, nothing more.
While I totally agree i also think that tool is like the machine gun in world war 1. We had guns before but it supercharged the rate in which the people in power inflict human misery. It's like web 1.0 was like general relativity. Intelligent people just working for the further understanding of their world. Web 2 was the atom bomb taking that technology and using it to make carnage. Where it had the potential to just light everyone's home.
Disagree. It's a tool that in it's current form changes our way of processing and way of perceiving. It literally changes the way your brain seeks pleasure as well as intakes facts. One that individuals have to have a the money, knowledge, and social/legal/cultural power to take control of otherwise it will modify your decision making in such a way that you don't feel, see, or believe there is a change. It's so ubiquitous, pervasive, and disruptive, that contact and at least minimal acceptance is required to function in the global society.
The isolation, cognitive disrupted, physiological change that the internet has wrought through the smartphone, social media, and the apps is huge and yet not well discussed in anything but academic studies and other rarified forums.
I want to somehow go back to 1998 and find young me
when I still believed the internet and computers would truly make us love each other more and break down national divides and bring a greater peace to the whole worldand i want to punch him square in the mouth.Same.
I mean Ive already given myself a black eye before, but I'd also love to go back and kick my own ass for not being a better person. Future me was never going to change anything Asafum, you dumb fuck. Now it's just 1000x harder and 2 decades down the drain.
Why do you feel you wasted 2 decades? Not enough personal progress? We all do what we can in life.