Remember when the internet used to be interesting? Back when there were homemade websites, chatrooms, and no real names?
The internet used to be a sea of anonymity and now it is has become the complete opposite. Instead of creating who you want to be and searching for new people out in the world, we're doing it totally backwards now people are just creating a mirror image of their real life and reconnecting with people they already know. It's like we got a new computer program here at the office and have years of back log to catch up on to be current. A program that finds everyone from your past and pulls them into present time with you. And once that's done, you just have to keep to program current by staying up to date on new people you've just met.
Why do we have this need to dig up every person from our past? What are we missing in our lives? Having everyone we've ever known at the touch of our fingertips can make it extremely difficult to have closure.
Remember the movie hackers? They sure loved their rollerblades. Do they still exist? Did they ever? I mean obviously hackers exist but what about that crazy almost rave culture that loves The Prodigy and instead of getting off on drugs they get off on "cracking the mainframe" in a secret room at the warehouse party. I imagine hackers of today to be just plain regular people in their plain regular apartments or sometimes those internet basement places with their buddies. A lot of defrauding personal accounts through fake emails and such but that's hardly glamourous.
So this is where the internet has taken us. From a chaotic and ethereal virtual world of made up identities, to a cold hard surface of reality. And I for one hate this new rehabilitated and sober internet.
