BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn’t just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.
They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.
This tweet isn’t just an observation, it’s the result of years of research and study. And it’s absolutely true.
Feeling that old time nostalgia from the late 90s-2001 when I could chat with people after waiting for the modem to send its screeches and beeps into the network void.
Tumblr came along at a pretty formative time for me (you know, those salad days that are your late twenties), and this book from @therealkatiewest‘s Fiction & Feeling promises to be an interesting and maybe Too Real collection of stories of the ways people connected with each other through places like this.
Tumblr came along at a pretty formative time for me (you know, those salad days that are your late twenties), and this book from @therealkatiewest‘s Fiction & Feeling promises to be an interesting and maybe Too Real collection of stories of the ways people connected with each other through places like this.
Less than 48 hours and $5800 USD to go!
We meet people on the Internet to a certain extent, and wholly take them for granted. The words they give us are among many. If we pay attention we find something worth keeping, but even then there is detachment of options. I may or I may not.
Jumbled words, tired mess, the weekend’s going to be a blur.
Stop waiting.
We meet people on the Internet to a certain extent, and wholly take them for granted. The words they give us are among many. If we pay attention we find something worth keeping, but even then there is detachment of options. I may or I may not.
Jumbled words, tired mess, the weekend’s going to be a blur.
