…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..
take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
they could appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV to make sure they’re still real
it’s the only connection they feel
…culturally, millenials are an echo of the baby boomers and i expect they’ll go the same way as they age out: there will be no progressive flourish, they’ll just shift its branding to embrace their own status quo…
…washed-up wannabe-hippie sellouts are a perennial refrain throughout history…
…gen X here: finally managed a modest house in my mid-fourties but i’ll be working until the day i drop…still fighting the powers that be to little avail, but at last they’re starting to die off…
…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely; in truth i think it gave a lot of us an excuse to upgrade from terminals and shell accounts…