Do you ever think about how the Internet has made it so that some of the people shaping the future are completely unglamorous nobodies who just get excited about clocks and protocols?
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The way it should be.
Maybe it's always been that way and we didn't notice.
even more boring things like encoders and APIs and obsessions with programming language theory too
I remember when we were all just posting lists in homeschool forums of our favorite classics and now it's this entire industry built around those lists, with fancy curriculum companies and whatnot.
the flak i used to cop for being so interested in computers as a child, maaaannnn... and now look at it, i am the one shunning the mobile phone while everyone else's eyes are permanently glued to them
Yeah, funny. š
Nobody likes her cuz all she talks about is "the world wide web", like anyone cares. š
My middle school made me stop jailbreaking the iPod touches and iPhones of other kids in school for a small fee
Now any cell carrier I try to use will constantly harass me, rob me, and deactivate my service all the time as punishment for being too woke and I can't even get phone calls without wifi anymore
Actually it tracks, it seems like a 180 but it's just that we "cop flak" even from the companies we pay for tech products
yeah, fuck em eh?
they'll be laughing on the other side of their faces when they are set on fire by a solar flare thanks to the nanocarbon they allowed themselves to be injected with and then if they survive that, after that they will either get swallowed up in an earthquake, crushed by the building they live in, washed out to sea or burned alive by a meteor strike... while i huddle in my little mountain citadel eating barbecued goats and fermented salads
No, only me. The rest of you are glamorous, in the only unglamorous nobody underdog š¤