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Written by Christian Wolff on 2025-01-20 at 02:03

For reference, I was born in 1993, and so I'm old enough only in theory to "remember" the Internet when it was still new to most people, and not nearly old enough to remember ARPANET even in theory. I can and will use IRC, and I usually don't. Et cetera.

The Fediverse feels, to me, like the oldest Internet I'm old enough to remember properly, while simultaneously and in equal measure feeling like the future. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way, and I don't think it truly matters why. I kept trying to come up with some fancy analogy for this until I realized it doesn't need one of those either. Literally, it feels like the oldest Internet I'm old enough to remember properly, and if I can recall, that was years before everything went from bad to worse—or perhaps before it even got all that bad, depending on how we're looking at this.

Maybe that's why it feels like the future: because it feels like the last time it was good.

Maybe that's exactly what we need right now.

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