Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

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I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce12/26/2023, 12:39 AM

my sub-generation of millenials was born into a world of hypertext

I don't see it talked about much, or that anyone's thought about it much. Not in that way, at least. A lot of people are spiraling around that.

I don't know if anyone's written anything on it but I'd love recos.

Like I was born near the start of the 90s and while I didn't have the internet until later, the world was already way more interconnected (in structure and in collaboration) because of it. I haven't known a world without scientists being able to collaborate nearly instantly to one extent or another, etc.

and I've thought about that particular thing a lot, but not "specifically a hypertext thing", until I started talking about wikipedia and backlinks and wishing man pages had support for backlinks

and just how much being able to point to things that exist somewhere else without weeks of delay changes things

#tools for thought #the internet #computing

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three genders in a wenchcoat @akhra12/26/2023, 2:19 AM

I've thought about this now and then because I'm solidly in the Xennial window and got to watch all of this becoming a thing early enough in my life that fluency didn't take effort; but also have a ton of younger friends and have noticed the differences in how they relate to technology that was science fiction in my early childhood and they never saw a world without.

I've never organized any extended thoughts on it (and frankly my perspective it feels like a far less interesting analysis than from the other side) but if you do find any, or decide to explore it more yourself, I'd definitely be interested.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce12/26/2023, 3:42 AM

I'm thinking much more about how the internet affected me well before I had access to it. There was still internetworked things in the 80s, but not nearly as broad uptake in the business/gov/edu realm.

so by the time I could process the world, everyone in it already was working at a speed way faster than the decades before it, even if it took them a few steps of other people to get there

three genders in a wenchcoat @akhra12/26/2023, 4:05 AM

oh huh. yeah, universities in particular were already seeing revolutionary benefits even before I was born ('77). I was... probably 10 or 11, the first time my dad showed me a live online chat (600 Baud lol) and was dialing into BBSes myself by 13 and those had their own independent internetworking too by then (1990). so yeah, maybe that applies almost as much to me... I was thinking in terms of personal immersion but in terms of impact it was there my whole life too.

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