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We miss chronological feeds. We miss forming community through internet friends and groupchats. We miss being fans and spending our lives obsessing over our faves. In an attempt to bring these things back to the surface, we're spending more time on open forums and less time with algorithms. So...... neocities blogs (brittany's here & sameera's here) and discord and perfectly imperfect. And more than anything, we're trying to spend time reminiscing about these days of early spirit and community. Maybe if we talk about it enough, it'll work its way back into existence. There's a reason why everyone misses it so much.
- Brittany & Sameera
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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We made a blog with all the things we love, and what we've created together as best friends. Slowly working out the functionality, but we aim to create something reflective of our insides and what we grew up on (the early internet). These interests led us to one another.
- Brittany & Sameera
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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This is one of my favourite videos on the planet, and it makes me profoundly sad.
This low-resolution, choppy screen capture of a beautiful, coincidental bit of resonance someone wanted to share with the world has accidentally become a time capsule for a time at which the internet was still so exciting and creatively exhilarating. When you could just realise this sounded cool and share it with the world, and people would see it when they got home from work or school and booted up the computer in the corner of the living room for thirty minutes or so at a time. It was clunky and slow and poorly designed but it was mesmerising.
The internet was more beautiful when it was uglier, and it was more freeing when it was less convenient. It used to be an exciting Place to visit literally held together by passion and innovation. Now it's an ever-present machine that wants everything from you in return for, what? Mr Beast?
Sharing this here feels right because this niche little community of lovely, smart, kind people who want to share their joys with the world is the closest thing I've felt to the Old internet since... well, since the old internet.
Sorry I got really sad looking at the old Windows XP login screens on Tumblr earlier today and it made me feel really existential
This low-resolution, choppy screen capture of a beautiful, coincidental bit of resonance someone wanted to share with the world has accidentally become a time capsule for a time at which the internet was still so exciting and creatively exhilarating. When you could just realise this sounded cool and share it with the world, and people would see it when they got home from work or school and booted up the computer in the corner of the living room for thirty minutes or so at a time. It was clunky and slow and poorly designed but it was mesmerising.
The internet was more beautiful when it was uglier, and it was more freeing when it was less convenient. It used to be an exciting Place to visit literally held together by passion and innovation. Now it's an ever-present machine that wants everything from you in return for, what? Mr Beast?
Sharing this here feels right because this niche little community of lovely, smart, kind people who want to share their joys with the world is the closest thing I've felt to the Old internet since... well, since the old internet.
Sorry I got really sad looking at the old Windows XP login screens on Tumblr earlier today and it made me feel really existential
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Putting sites into the Wayback Machine and seeing them in their original form. Hope we figure out time travel next.
- Brittany & Sameera
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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Oct 1, 2024
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🐈First question we ask is What's The Worst Thing You've Done To A Woman? Usually, some guy says he respected her too much. Then we say: Do You Believe In Karma? If they weren't hooked in before, now they are. In for the kill... Could I Get A Video Of You Meowing?
Compilation video coming soon. - Brittany & Sameera
Compilation video coming soon. - Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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✉️We've been reaching out to people to interview on The Internet Is Dead Podcast via cold emails. It feels like opening up a world when we connect with one new individual who we never would've met in person. The Internet has created something so significant and life-changing in the sense that most humans who you find online are available to you if you just ask for them. You never realize the impact that one friendship has until suddenly you do.
Interviews include Current Joys, William Craver, Summer Mckeen, Nicole Rafiee, Lauren Brodauf, Marcus Maddox, lotsofhands, TAGBOW, Sugar Pine 7 (forthcoming), Hotline TNT (forthcoming), Horse Jumper of Love (forthcoming).
- Brittany & Sameera
Interviews include Current Joys, William Craver, Summer Mckeen, Nicole Rafiee, Lauren Brodauf, Marcus Maddox, lotsofhands, TAGBOW, Sugar Pine 7 (forthcoming), Hotline TNT (forthcoming), Horse Jumper of Love (forthcoming).
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024