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How to Internet

How to Internet

6 years ago
Anonymous $roN-uuAfLt

https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-internet-6c379e75c8e0

At my job teaching college students, I’m occasionally mistaken for one. I’ve found that a good way to make students take me seriously on the first day is to mention that I remember a time before the internet. Of course that’s not true given a precise interpretation of what the internet actually is. But I’m certainly old enough to remember PSA-like videos coaxing the casual newbie into the exciting, if intimidating, world of cyberspace. Such videos often begin the same way, with a middle-aged man voicing all of the hypothetical questions you must be having: “But what exactly is the internet?” “How much will it cost?” “Will I be any good at it?”

Thanks to enterprising individuals like Andy Baio and sites like Everything is Terrible, some of these early videos and TV shows have been extracted from VHS tapes and are now available on YouTube. Warning: one can get pretty nostalgic watching these videos, in which the internet is imagined as a neat, useful thing — not yet an omnipresent force with unfathomable effects on our economy and sociality.

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