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"The Internet is fun"

Doesn't feel like it lately. Actually hasn't felt like it for over a decade.

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Look at this gem of the past I just watched from CBC, 1995! This was in my YouTube Recommended algorithm today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EXga2hEIs

It features a young nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyzujmnq8uxljl8l5m30p6kf69nnnerpz4tq2urwm62lz7qa34rk4xe4998y (nprofile…998y) extolling the virtues of the Internet. Among other things, he warned people about not getting sucked into online arguments and predicted online video services killing traditional television. I particularly like how he described solo use vs. social Internet use.

This was two years before I got on the Internet in 1997.