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2 November, 2024

Looking at BBC websites from 2009 it appears the kids forums had official opening hours. I've always thought about making a website only accessible during waking hours, like old television.

22 October, 2024

The infinite expansion of media enabled by social media followed by the draconian limitations on that access through perverted feeds and no official remedies to wrangle them (e.g. RSS) is humane and feels unrivaled. The explosion of books brought the lending library, TV had DVR.

13 September, 2024

I've been on a 90s kick after rereading Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties. Lots of great lines, especially on the internet which is why we're all here.

It sometimes doesn't seem possible that the postal service and landline telephones were enough to perpetuate society. But they were, and there was no sense whatsoever that communication was not happening fast enough. [...] while it was always possible to disagree over whether [the] long-distance rate was reasonable or expensive, no one assumed phone calls should be free. The limitations of time and space were ingrained, as was the concept of a telephone's calcifying geography in nonnegotiable terms.

What have we done?