My wife was at home in San Francisco and I was in Mexico City for work.
She told me to go look at the moon.
Being 2000 miles apart we could look at the same object at the same time.
The Internet used to be like that.
A shared experience - “did you see what was on the front page of Instagram?”
I miss that.
Now we are off in separate algorithms like the Tower of Babel.
Doesn’t it feel like without a shared experience it’s basically offline?
I find people I have stuff in common with will also get a similar feed. I sent something to a co-worker last week, and he said he had just sent the same thing to another one of our co-workers and hour earlier.
There was a period of time where this happened so often it became a bit boring. Reddit about 15 years ago. Everyone has already seen everything we tried to bring up to talk about, so there wasn’t much to say. It was a lot of, “did you see…”, “yep”, “oh… what about…”, “yep”.
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