@thejikz Thought-provoking, too. The internet is a microcosm of all the rest.

A rousing call to take back our technology and bring back the old web. I read the entire essay!

As I've been saying for a year or two now, *almost nothing has actually changed* technology-wise between 1995 and 2025. Most of HTML 3.5 still works in any browser. It's super easy to learn. I've got that shit on muscle-memory speed-dial and could whip out a site in notepad in 30 minutes!

Nothing has actually been *taken* from us; we've just been discouraged from using it! A bunch of techbros took up a bunch of space and we just said "ok I guess you make all the spaces now." That's nothing but a culture thing! Manipulation! It's psychological!

So let's self-organize an internet the way we did once before.

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