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2026-07-23 02:36 UTC

theyre in 2020 calling "the internet" 25 years old. he was in 1995 saying he'd been on "the internet" for a couple of decades. i think that illustrates a very interesting difference in perspective

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@ness@ioc.exchange 2026-07-23 02:38

"What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where–in the holy names of Education and Progress–important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued." BARS

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