The internet is like an uncontained parallel universe. You can connect with people from all around the world – your friends and family, people at school, strangers with common interests, strangers with absolutely no common interests...everyone’s online. You can find 2139 recipes for chocolate chip cookies and pour over the life story of every single author in the description above, you can buy clothes and get them delivered to you within the week, you can binge watch a TV show, you can write stories, create, share art, you can read the news, you can watch videos, you can play games, you can learn something...everything under the virtual sun ☀️ Before me, there was myspace and napster and chat rooms and message boards and e-mail. With all the nostalgia for old technology (see: record players, polaroids making a comeback), you’d think you’d find more instances of this “old internet” somewhere. But I don’t see it. The old internet is like a tall tale now. The modern day internet feels like an echo chamber – less fun, more angry. Send my regards to the Big Tech overlords. But you can find pockets of joy if you try. I say uncontained parallel universe because so much of our online lives spill over. You can create an online persona and hide behind a veil of anonymity but you can’t deny that what happens online also happens offline. Online content needs to be moderated somehow and real people do that, you watch videos and read stuff people say and real people are doing that…the internet is weird and it’s messy.