n my experience, the real intoxication of the internet in the 1980s lay in the contrast between the luminescent yellow-green symbols and the fathomless yonder. This is how it appeared on my first computer terminal, a boxy khaki Zenith z-19, which I lucked into when my father bought it on a whim in 1979 and I was the only one in my family who was rapt. Behind the letters there seemed to be a cold, mile-deep mountain lake or perhaps an uncharted galaxy, colder still.
We left New York City, my two kids and boyfriend and I, soon after the virus peaked there. Hundreds were still dying of the disease every day. Thousands were on ventilators. An 18-wheeler that had been converted into a mobile morgue was still stationed a block from our apartment. We saw people pile in bodies. I had lost my aunt and my job by the time we drove to the countryside in my boyfriend’s battered Honda Odyssey. Sirens wailed as we headed north.
The pure abstraction and infinite possibilities of online existence still suit and excite me, and returning to material things and the obligations of creaturely existence can feel like a comedown. But it’s a necessary one. In these days of digital supersaturation, there’s a new, almost yogic poignancy in dropping back into the body. I become embodied again.
1843mag Os repetís bastante... Parecemos sims Darme algo de dinero y tengamos la fiesta en paz....
1843mag Yes, what a surprise, you are awake more than you are asleep, what a discovery!
1843mag I sat on the toilet for two hours browsing through Reddit this morning. Felt like 15 minutes.
1843mag I believe that is the universal fate of purported economists.
1843mag Yea because if you put your phone down with the world going to shit you may actually miss the apocalypse. Stay on the internet, stay alive and stay frosty.
1843mag Rest is good for the heart.
1843mag 🤮
1843mag His new invention?
1843mag thanks
1843mag I spend maybe 12 hours on average on the computer per day
1843mag Screen hours needs to be balanced. Health is wealth.
1843mag 😂
1843mag On pandemic-era screen time overload: 'There the internet became mandatory and panoptic. It never let up. Zoom meeting after FaceTime catch-up after e-commerce bender and always email, texts, documents, bill-paying, social media and Netflix.'
1843mag Yes. Yes, you're right. (Insert eye rolling emoji looking in the mirror) Eeek!
1843mag I remember being the only person in school, other then my friend Karen who had Juno email. That was all we could do in 96. Send email. A few years later I had AOL & thought I had become a hacker lmao. I miss the days of mIRC & ICQ (my was 6292066 & I’ll never forget it.)
1843mag Any relation to Doug Heffernan?
1843mag Witty caption - The Internet: mon amour 😋👌
1843mag Any relation to the infamous Scott Heffernan?
1843mag Support BIAFRA right to freedom
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1843mag The untouchable Life
1843mag Vr technology to create aquatic like creatures that swim around like a old desktop screen savers
1843mag (1) Don’t deceive yourself. I see people on the street, not warring any face coverings, enjoying in restaurants, shopping as normal, and passing each other like there’s no 2 mt or any social distance rule at all.
1843mag finding fulfilment on the internet ? read EM Forester's 1909 short story *The Machine Stops* the short answer is No
1843mag Yea, with Pornhub! 😂
1843mag The interweb has way more pixels than that
1843mag Nah!
1843mag Sounds like the is “grooming” you to enjoy the transhumanist lifestyle and adopt it as your “new acceptable normal” ...nice try
1843mag No...human in-person real non-virtual interaction is vital to our sanity. Don’t believe it? Ask inmates in solitary confinement.
1843mag OMG
1843mag tfw you stay up all night looking at pictures of hillary clinton
1843mag Running a quick poll
1843mag This is sad & very true. With most of us who continue to WFH, suddenly there is no off time...we are constantly on either phones or laptops, & mostly its work...the entertainment bit has surely reduced...this ain't healthy in the long run.
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