nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde the shared intent none of us knew quite what computers were going to be yet, and we were all, as a society, engaged in the collaborative project of finding that out together

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde People actually cared about websites

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde Miss: discovery without platform. Want back: liberty and functioning boundaries (in a soft sense, not borders).

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde Being more fun, getting excited about new things. There's still a bit of that there for me, mostly around the fediverse. So grateful it exists!

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde I miss that there once was a time when about all you had to do to protect your privacy was disallow cookies.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde The magic, the freedom, the creativity… the OG internet was supposed to be an infinite realm of possibilities where everyone could be themselves. Not this entshitified, gatekept, commo...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde web sites without javascript, cookies, trackers. web sites that just wanted to share info, not sell you something.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde from 30 years ago: Altavista, searchable web, pre-framework web pages from 20 years ago: businesses having their own websites and not only a social network account from 10 years ago: I m...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde The quirks, the individuality. Everything not looking like an overdesigned-with-a-focus-on-sterility corporate page. Not living in a constant state of anxiety about who is data mining...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde I can't prove it (but I could if I could find that one "Internet Phone Book" that was published back in the day), but I had the first Sex Pistols fan site on the Web, back in 1995. I e...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde more niche hobbies like bonsai kittying.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde websites that don't have the entire NPM as dependencies, and don't depend on javascript for links to work.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde I did a Masters in Lifelong Learning a big part of it was online and about online learning. I remember emailing Tim Berners Lee and getting a helpful reply. I became an online facilita...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde not the most. But I miss geocities. PS: I just found an easter egg in Google. Search "geocities".

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde I miss the personalization. The centralization of everything has made the internet a boring place to visit. Everything looks the same now, few websites even try to be more than busy. Th...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqht0hde Simplicity and lack of tracking/surveillance.