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(Mid 90's Crisis) |
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May 15, 2020 |
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I know what I was doing in '94. I was BBSing, reading alt.magick, and |
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digging into gopher for MUD links. And, I was very lonely, feral, |
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unsupervised, and 15. I've been able to move forward from those dark |
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times by abandoning sentiment and attachment to the familiar and by |
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focusing on progress and growth. I had mostly disdain for nostalgia and |
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sentiment, it seemed like dead weight. Now in 2020, I'm pretty happy, I |
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have a great relationship, and have a life together, and am phlogging on |
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gopher, and thinking about loading up tin and seeing if alt.magick is full |
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of wizards and witches discussing Gematria. |
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I'd like to think that there's some greater value to the world in sdf.org |
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and this world of retro internet. And no doubt there is a need for what |
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sdf offers, more signal less noise, privacy, and control. But to be |
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perfectly honest, I'm just finally surrendering to nostalgia. The boomers |
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had their Happy Days, I have my retro-net, and the Millenials will be just |
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be playing Pokemon all the way through the end of their years. They seem |
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to be born nostalgic, nostalgic about things they never even lived, even. |
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I can hang with that. |
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