funkwurm mentions an mwesch video, but i have a better one! The last half of my video response is a clip from it. If you watch it, I promise you special and highly efficacious prayers!
It's crazy to think about. My family got our first PC, I want to say around 92. My dad was into it and would upgrade the machine every year or two. As a result, I can remember a time when you had to boot via DOS, connect to the internet via a 14kb per sec dial up modem, and other search engines besides Google still existed. All that seems like a distant past as my cell phone now has more processing power than all those machines combined. Crazy.
I'm a little bit older than you and i got my first pc in the late 90's but i think i never really freaked out about the internet and the future and stuff. Maybe because i'm reading SF lit since i'm 12. I really want all that stuff i've been reading about to happen. Yay Future! :)
I got the quote from Mike Wesch, you might know him as the guy behind the video that was featured way back when being featured was a huge thing. The video was "Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us".
On his channel (mwesch) there's a video you wanna watch: The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity. It's a half an hour long talk with very good insight into how this is changing us.
Wow, I never thought of it like that. We are the last generation to know what life is like without computers. That's so bizarre. And it's definitely weird that our lives are so documented these days. I've had my Livejournal for 7 years. 7 years of my life recorded online, for me to go back and read at will. And, theoretically, future generations will be able to see my journal and youtube and facebook and twitter after I die. How weird is that?
funkwurm mentions an mwesch video, but i have a better one! The last half of my video response is a clip from it. If you watch it, I promise you special and highly efficacious prayers!
michaelamity 11 months ago
o hai.
fecklessman 1 year ago
And then you try to run away but the machine blasts you with this beam thing and there are FUCKING DALEKS EVERYWHERE DAMN IT
Futuredudeman 1 year ago
It's crazy to think about. My family got our first PC, I want to say around 92. My dad was into it and would upgrade the machine every year or two. As a result, I can remember a time when you had to boot via DOS, connect to the internet via a 14kb per sec dial up modem, and other search engines besides Google still existed. All that seems like a distant past as my cell phone now has more processing power than all those machines combined. Crazy.
LuminousLayers 1 year ago
I'm a little bit older than you and i got my first pc in the late 90's but i think i never really freaked out about the internet and the future and stuff. Maybe because i'm reading SF lit since i'm 12. I really want all that stuff i've been reading about to happen. Yay Future! :)
firnantok 1 year ago
"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan
I got the quote from Mike Wesch, you might know him as the guy behind the video that was featured way back when being featured was a huge thing. The video was "Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us".
On his channel (mwesch) there's a video you wanna watch: The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity. It's a half an hour long talk with very good insight into how this is changing us.
funkwurm 1 year ago
So I take it you don't watch CAPRICA? We're just programming our future selves, is all.
grife3000 1 year ago
I love seeing Youtubers in a good mood. ^_^
We had a desktop at home in the mid 90s, I believe, and I was mostly for educational games and typing up stuff for classes and such.
Ah, the ending of series 1 of new Doctor Who. :)
- Jason
crimsong19 1 year ago
Oh hii :D
SirMrJames 1 year ago
Oregon Trail. Good game! Also, I completely recommend the series of Dexter if you're not already addicted to it! Go watch it now!
Intrasolarmusic 1 year ago
You should watch the Ghost in the Shell Series of anime.
EccentricInTexas 1 year ago
I don't know if its just because I'm tired but I found it a little hard to follow at times, but it was good all the same
craigmac1989 1 year ago
Wow, I never thought of it like that. We are the last generation to know what life is like without computers. That's so bizarre. And it's definitely weird that our lives are so documented these days. I've had my Livejournal for 7 years. 7 years of my life recorded online, for me to go back and read at will. And, theoretically, future generations will be able to see my journal and youtube and facebook and twitter after I die. How weird is that?
(Also, repeat after me: Or-eh-gun. Or-eh-gun. :D)
bekabee24 1 year ago