
OwlGod
- Nov 29, 2020
- 114
i've had screens and computers as my private escapes since ever and there was always this sense of wonder and of discovering new things and making new sorts of interactions be with the screens and its very users. gaming has been grand part of this in a sense, the communities, modding, clans and the amount of interesting people i've taken for granted that appeared to me as i walked my way within communities of every game i played is something i'll never get back. early days of social media, forums and chans were also so great, there are many discussions, memes, images and more niched kinds of topics that i've bookmarked to this day, and in the entangling of this something always lead me somewhere else, as a sort of mirror being broken which made me kind of schizophrenic and also with a higher threshold for excitability, and as i've dig so much i caught myself inside the infinity of the web, until i lost myself and realized those things are beginning to fade. since the pandemics started i realized how ephemeral the internet was, my bookmarks are 50% of what it once was, most of sites no longer exist or were taken down, a lot were forums, blogs, and certain sites with utility driven content. many "miscellaneous" or offtopic weird sites are also for sale or behind a wall of sorts, if not straight up dead. the "www" as it is nowadays is pretty much a composition of META and Alphabet, and whatever remains to this day is botted up by a lot (this is if it's even an interactive site at all.)