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I know that Discord and other social media platforms (and ofc this) exist, and that's fine and dandy. But do you remember the thrill of going into chat rooms? Getting responses in real time, not too personal, low commitment, and always available? I guess it's all sex bots and links to other platforms now, but for just a brief moment in internet history, it was glorious. Except for kids getting groomed. That was bad. Anyway. Two of my best friends even met their now-husbands on chat rooms!
May 27, 2024
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That free CD that showed up in the mail but your parents were too cheap to get another phone line dedicated to the internet so you went to your friends house and switched back and forth between your screen names, and of course lied about your age/sex/location to all the other people who were lying about their age/sex/location and everything devolved into cybering or threats of fighting outside some mini-mart you both agree to meet at 7pm on Friday but really you live in Pennsylvania not California so you’d actually never even heard of the store and you and your friend laugh about how your new enemy is just going to be sitting there waiting, wasting their time. Let’s try a new room this one‘s getting boring now (repeat process)
Sep 20, 2024
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Omg the nostalgia of this prompt 😭
• Excite
• Americangirl.com (lol)
• Neopets
• Fanfiction.net (still there ✌🏻)
• Livejournal, Xanga, MySpace
• Yahoo! instant messenger
• Teenspot (my go-to talk to strangers who probably weren’t teenagers site 😬)
• Various proboards for all the fandoms I followed
Apr 11, 2024
We miss chronological feeds. We miss forming community through internet friends and groupchats. We miss being fans and spending our lives obsessing over our faves. In an attempt to bring these things back to the surface, we're spending more time on open forums and less time with algorithms. So...... neocities blogs (brittany's here & sameera's here) and discord and perfectly imperfect. And more than anything, we're trying to spend time reminiscing about these days of early spirit and community. Maybe if we talk about it enough, it'll work its way back into existence. There's a reason why everyone misses it so much.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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Life is short. Set yourself free. Let’s stop playing these silly little games society wants us to play. Double text. Triple text if you have to. No one’s going to revoke your texting privileges.
May 21, 2024
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Hotdogs out of a cart attached to a man’s bike? Yes please. Tamales sold out of a woman’s van in the grocery store parking lot? I’ll take a dozen. Nam Khao from a tent outside the Buddhist temple? Absolutely. The threat of possible food poisoning does not deter the adventurous spirit when there’s the glimmering hope of finding something truly special.
May 23, 2024
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all of my life I’ve been told I’m too sensitive. And as hard as I’ve tried to mask the soft underbelly of my emotional nature, the allegations are true. There are few things that are harder to hear from someone who is supposed to love you. Like there’s something inherently wrong about the way you experience the world and there’s a right way to do it that involves a level of apathy, callousness, and selfishness that is so out of character for you it feels like you’re wearing a costume.
Still..
There is something defiant about caring despite.
There’s something primal and human about it all.
I feel the full spectrum and the full weight of whatever I’m experiencing, and I feel yours too.
May 22, 2024