How has burial dated for you?

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catalog

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I remember my first Internet encounters, at school. 20 people in my A level History class and we were all round one screen, with one guy, Nick, on the seat, and the teacher saying, go on then Nick, put Adolf Hitler in. And the amazement when all this stuff came up.

Then the same day, at lunchtime, going back and putting freeones or some tits site in.
 
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Music videos were what made me realize the computer was a place to be and not just another household appliance, sometime in elementary school I believe. Id cycle through the same 5-10 videos everyday- two of which I remember being a song by hoobastank and another by yellowcard
 
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catalog said:
I remember my first Internet encounters, at school. 20 people in my A level History class and we were all round one screen, with one guy, Nick, on the seat, and the teacher saying, go on then Nick, put Adolf Hitler in. And the amazement when all this stuff came up.

Then the same day, at lunchtime, going back and putting freeones or some tits site in.
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Best day of Nick's life.
 
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I remember a friend (the same one with the vintage Swedish porn) and I in my apartment getting my first home PC -- a Compaq Presario -- all booted up and then being stumped on what to look up, so he entered "beer" and suddenly there was all this info. big day.

hitler and porn came a few days later, probably.
 
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Linebaugh said:
having been inundated early on by the internet I never had a sense of lost technological futures. When I first heard Burial it registered just as sad bleeps and bloops. The only time I ever felt wrapped up in some great technological evolution was when hand held tech (cell phones, MP3 players, the PSP even) became standard fare, which was middle school in the mid to late aughts. But I never had some belief about the liberating powers of technology as that always seemed to be some relatively stable part of Society or Humanity at large. So losing hope at the future as I aged wasn't really tech directed.
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This is good, I didn't introspect enough, I just recycled a talking point. I was saying to Beiser the other day that my one tech disillusionment in life has been Google. Probably when I was 15/16 I thought they were Actually Good, and it's a bummer how things unfolded. They killed all my favorite apps one after another—the RSS reader, CloudPrint, Google Play (I still haven't finished transitioning off; it's a huge task to port a music library over). I'm in support of the "try shit, see what sticks" attitude, but I think they weren't properly factoring things like cultural impact or dependability, it tanks your brand reputation to just perpetually bail on people.

Seems like any superorganism has an inevitable spiral into decadence and out of vision, which isn't sustainable. (See Christianity.) I probably did more in college/but still do sorta believe the Silicon Valley ideology (whatever bundle of progress studies & residual 60s hippie shit) is above-average in ideology horse race. Even as it has failure modes, even as it is very much subject to Sturgeon's Law. (Like literally every other field that gold-rushes. No one keeps a wall between grifters and a whalefall.)
 
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But no when I was a kid didn't think we were getting flying cars. I think I probably felt like AI was on the schedule AI is on. I think I thought cancer would be cured and I'd be immortal. The first seems possible the second now seems unlikely. I don't think it affected me in any deep psychological way, to gradually realize I'll probably die, but I noticed it and sometime I think about it.
 
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catalog

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When I was at uni we had one shared pc in our student house, in the hallway, so you'd frequently walk in the front door or down the stairs and your mate would be there in his boxers all red faced.
 
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Same with the cancer bit. I was VR hopeful aswell, mainly as pertained to video games. I also started balding kinda early and I would always tell my bald uncles that jokes on them theyll have it figured out by the time it comes my turn....still patiently waiting
 
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Linebaugh said:
Maybe I was late to the internet but I feel like I arrived when it was almost fully realized- youtube, wikepedia, social media, chat rooms- my use today isn't all that different from then. Coming from the actual experience of using the web, things like scooby doo and the cyber chase didn't feel connected at all. It was like watching fantasy or horror, just another disconnected fiction.
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It's been nice, I grew up in chatrooms + forums + blogs—Web 1.0 stuff—in middle school. Then fell off the Internet early high school b/c I was getting serious about swimming. So it was mainly Web 2.0, capital-s social media—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. And then end of college starting falling off those and onto blogs + forums + glorified chatrooms (Discord/Slack)
 
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I think we were a little late I was 4 when 2000 came around, the future had arrived man.
 
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catalog

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I went back and read that thread about the modular I made and it's weird, but there is something about needing a device that works for wanking. That's the motor isn't it.
 
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And then Padraig would convincingly argue with back-quotes that he'd never entertained serious worries about Y2K in the first place.
 
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