I guess I’m curious about generations (namely GenZ and Alpha) who didn’t live in a pre-Internet time. Like,

  • How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?
  • Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it’s absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant?
  • Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?
  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Later when WWW became the main thing, the common fun thing to do was just type in random URLs and see what you got.

    That game got banned at my school pretty quickly. Turns out everyone trying [name].com had bad results.