If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide There was a shooting more or less in my vicinity today. My first reaction was to long for the days when a simple text search on Twitter would have been enough to figure what was going on.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide usenet (which probably betrays my age)
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide is that old enough to have had a geocities page?
I still kind of feel like the idea that we would all have "homepages" linked together by common interests and spontaneous social networking was one of our better ones. Fediverse is pretty cool too though... -
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide and end up here then
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@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide it's true but then we built it on the sand of private billionaire beaches, that's on us, maybe we let the sea take it all and start again on firmer freer ground.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide
Memories of Google+.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide @sstephenson as always we poor Gen Xers get overlooked
[goes off to fiddle with my gopher site]
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide let me see... IRC, ICQ, Forums and message boards, Facebook, MMORPG, Twitter... yes, pretty much. I feel a bit like a drifter now. No real home. Just go in and out, take what I need, wave hello, and carry on.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
......is that just on the internet, or in general?
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide "[…] The Temple […] grows cold and strong, but the wind blows stronger, cold and long"
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide one more reason to have a persistent handle and a fursona.
The chalk may crumble, but I will find my friends again.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide 52 here and yeah...
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide masto is my twelfth social platform if you count forums and IRC as single entities
and it's by far the best, even with all its problems
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide It never should have been considered permanent.
I do feel sorry for folk who’ve built up audiences to support their ventures to have billionaires destroy them and really am not sure what an answer to that is except somehow making our governments ensure billionaires can't happen and anti-monopoly laws are enforced.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide mIRC, geocities, ICQ, myspace, wordpress blogs, Google Wave, twitter, clubhouse, ... Just what comes to mind right away 🥲
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@evacide There was a shooting more or less in my vicinity today. My first reaction was to long for the days when a simple text search on Twitter would have been enough to figure what was going on.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide And if you’re in your 50’s, that process started on local dial-up bulletin board systems before shifting to the internet…
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I feel for those who built community, and that community isn't organizing together to just shift over en masse to another location (example Fediverse) but I do think businesses who put all their eggs in someone else's basket were a bit short sighted. Governments even more so! Use corp media, sure, but not exclusively!
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@evacide And if you’re in your 50’s, that process started on local dial-up bulletin board systems before shifting to the internet…
@TerpEE93 I started on MUDs and Usenet.
