Re: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

This is how I ramble and shift to and fro like I have a nerve disorder. Transcript follows:

Response to http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

"To this video, you replied "I don't get it." Because according to your profile, you're 13, and before I am flamed, I would like to point out that I'm not insutling your intelligence due to your age. I am saying you were basically born with the internet... so tech savvy or not, you havn't seen the older generations of the internet, as it were.

To clarify, it's sort of like asking a 13 year old like yourself (or a 19, nearly 20 year old like myself) to fully appreciate the difference between a vynil and cassette tape (I don't think you are too young for those.) Even if we happen consider Turntablism a modern phenomenon.

But anyhow, my metaphore is probably a bit off, but, having been online since the days of AoL 3, Compuserve, and the like, when people still had to dial in, before broadband, when the fastest internet you could buy, was still slower than the slowest dial up today. Before the internet had Video, when the only movement you could see online was scrolling text or ugly glitter-GIFs on a disheveled, poorly formatted, poorly coded Angelfire page. Before you could Download an MP3 (before they existed), and all the music on the internet was annoying digitized .MIDI files. Back before Blogging, when if you actually knew how to write HTML well enough to have a web journal, your opnion could actually be considered valid. Back when a person's desktop walpaper from today, can use more memory than most website used (or than most computers even had), all but 5 or 6 yeas ago. Hell, even back before Forums existed as we know and troll them today, back in the day of the bulletin boards and single-post newsgroups...

Before YouTube, Blogger, BitTorrent, and MySpace. Before community efforts like Wikipedia, deviantArt and SecondLife served both as cultural hubs, and social whipping-posts. Before e-commerce, before eBAY and Amazon, when you actually had to SHOP online to get what you were looking for. Back when electronics didn't mean iTronics. Before the MMO, the FPS, before PlayOnline and Windows went LIVE. Back before RSS, when you actually had to know where to look to find the information you were looking for; Back when Google wasn't a demigod, and when Yahooligans still existed. Back when the internet was a big deal.

Back when Instant Feedback, in a brave new world of Instant Gratification, by means of Instant Messaging; back when Instantanious meant it was slower than it is today.

I have to say, in my opinion, it's a very exciting time.

I get it."

Good day, Soylent Hero.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• ksudigg
• web2.0
• digital
• ethnography
• hypermedia
• anthropology

[rytfane]

why are you with cap AT HOME? :DD there's so cold or what? :D

[soylencer]

Maybe I have a bad haircut.

Who knows?

[marilyndemarco]

And my first computer was a Commodore Vic20 3k of memory and a thermal printer that cost 400 bucks......The machine was an introduction just to open your imagination. Trouble is people forgot how to think and use the tool well.. It is a tool that organizes repetious behaviors.. Your still need to interact as a human and create and move and think. The medium is the message. Your are right! .M

[papuchii]

maldito loko take out the fucking video

[pintalf]

You left out T.S

[iscientist]

i want my 4mins 12 seconds back

[TheDiaryProject]

just delete the video..

[Swimace]

dude, sort ur mic out. Nice response though, good angle of looking at it... I like :D

[blowjustinup]

Regardless of how much more primitive it was back when you were growing up, things were still very primitive back in our day. That's all he was saying. He wasn't saying that he was alive for the first computer, he wasn't saying that he was around for the first 'versions' of the internet. If you want to go ahead and deny that using a 14.4kbps dial-up modem is primitive compared to what we have today, then you sir, are an idiot.

Thanks.

[googoogoo]

Yeah, I'm the "tard"-- because I'm the one who just flamed the wrong person.

Genius. Keep lobbing those softballs guys.

[googoogoo]

Yes, things must have changed a lot in 10 years-- it seems that high-schoolers are no longer capable of staying on topic. This has nothing to do with "knowing history". Soylencer went on about how he came from a time when the internet and computers were just sooo primitive, when in reality he (and you) came onto the "internet scene" rather late. It was interesting learning about what courses you've taken, however.

Try to keep up.