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Jan092013

Unhinged and Lawless

DateWednesday, January 9, 2013 at 04:46PM

I wrote something for The Daily Dot Opinion section about Internet nostalgia. 

What this nostalgia is now is actually a craving for something that today would be entirely unrecognizable: an approximation of what it felt like back in those early days, to be cruising on the information highway, the tarmac rolling out ahead of you into the horizon, the desert stretching in either direction. It was quieter, more spacious; you knew that if you threw a rock it would take a while to hit someone. Ping. This is what we are looking towards with our animated GIFs and white space: a yearning for the peaceful expanse of Internet 1.0: peaceful, and yet somehow more unhinged and lawless.

Read more here.

AuthorZan McQuade | CommentPost a Comment |
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