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one aspect of Millennial nostalgia I seldom see anyone talk about is having learned certain words and phrases from a certain series of books books- through voracious fable devourment, if you will -and thus being totally unable to hear anyone say "inordinate" and be mentally normal about it, even a score of years later

"score" being a unit of measurement which here means "oh my god I'm 33 years old and I got Pavlov'd by the Lucky Smells Lumbermill"

#a series of unfortunate events #millennial nostalgia #the most ironic moment of my 10-year-old life was when a classmate had to stop keeping a lending library of ASOUE books on her desk #because they were- I am not making this up -a fire hazard

I miss the peace/isolation/deliberateness-of-interaction of the 90s and 2000s internet.

Back in the 90s and 2000s when I was first going online, you had to go out of your way to communicate and interact with people.

Browsing websites was a solitary experience, not a social one where everyone who was in my circle knew roughly what I was up to at all times.

I saved pictures and fic I was interested in to my harddrive rather than immediately and essentially automatically forwarding it (reblogging it) to an entire mailing list (followers).

Chatting with people was deliberate and intentional. I had to specifically open my AIM, or log in to IRC and join the channels I was in.

In order to communicate with people, I had to deliberately open lines of communication.

Being on the internet used to be a quiet, solitary experience for the most part, with interactions being deliberately sought out. You had to choose to go out of your way to interact with people.

I don't hate the way the internet has become more social, but I hate that I'm expected never to turn it off, and to be available at all times.