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- P.A.W. (left)
- (intro) web: https://sites.google.com/view/utopistic-nostalgias/millenial-net-utopia-2010 (*actual*)
- Tumblr (left)
- cancelled futures - anonymous forum
- lost futures, broken promises - therefore also
- old 4chan becomes a trending aesthetic for tiktok zoomers
- the probable negative future of web revival (See 2007 Positivity definition, below)
- Discussion Page/Forum (left)
"Revolutionaire" Hyper Influencers
startups craze...
hipsters, swag; tumblr/twt/insta boom...(/1)
"change!"
hypercritical - *gen "why"*
edgy and fringe (pol.) movements (e.g. socialism "academia") (///1; 5)
gov. (etc.) criticism
start of hyperpolitization - snark, post-post-modern ("world is fucked but whatcha gonna do!? what after you fix it, just infinite revolutions??") (2b)
(hard) soc-media boom - everyone and their dog on there... (on net) (1) (xc)
post/meta-modern snarkiness - "Twitter (pol.) Academia" (know-it-alls - information overload, but desputable quality...)
<zen traquility etc.> - last lapses of techno-positivism...
world, society dies (due to "capitalism exploitation") - overused, loses its meaning
post-post-modern, snark, know-it-alls... (/2b) (#link) [gal. 2]
world, society, what we do, is fake - all is, and makes no sense - nihilism and apathy, hopelessness...
disenfrag. with "frutiger (eco.) futures", technopositivism
cancelled futures, hauntology - Mark Fisher, Deleuze, acid communism, e/acc
simulacras, corecore - denial, blame (from millenials - world, to boomers), hate. dreams, nostalgia...
hypercritical (2)
(/1) cookie-cutter (YT vids) "explaining" on "evils (of... capitalism, "hegemony", "exploitation"...)"
"golden age" (old web) - "look what they (gov ~) took away from us!"
pre-(massive)-corpo web (pre-Google) - YT "(g)old cringe" era (cca 2005/'06-2009)
"make work fun" - "we are like family here" (hustle culture)
or, "work is exploitation" (/2; //1)
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"golden age" (old web) - equilibrium between News and Algo (pre-crony, -reagonomics) (*h)
pre-(massive)-corpo web (pre-Google) - pre-iphone mass-adoption, pre-iphone-net
"frutiger (eco.) futures", technopositivism
critical, but positive - simple satire jokes (in opp. to 2010 MNU hypercriticism, snarkiness & <corecore> - apathy, fake-nihilism...)
(soft) soc-media boom...
(next slow) commodification of alt. and punk (teenpunk,)... - scroll over #link to get to *Playlists* (music and media - end of nerd-net gate-keeping (xc))
punk, emo, scene triangle before proliferstion by massmedia (/h)
nostalgia (related):
warezpunk pirates ("Pirates Aacademia") (1)
Assange, Wikileaks, Snowden, Net Neutrality... (xc) (netpunk retro freenet /b)
Freedom of speech, knowledge, info...
gov & etc. criticism (/ ///1; /5)
MySpace (personalized webs), GeoCities
gruesome graphics, css (blingees...)
nostalgia about web 0.5-1.0
copying, gatekeeping
late GVC "vibes" (/1)
Geeks-net (BBS forums)(b)
research boom, and positivity about life etc.
hackers (//1), freedom (net as friend/bonus, not daily routine, inseparable from life; xc)
- tells us about era when avg. (older) people were afraid of youngsters on this "internet", (portrayal by News)
- full of "hackers" and their terrifying clans and "banned", scary knowledge;
- when reddit and flickr were still cool, edgy and hipster...
Nostalgia takes:
"#appliances were built to last as long as possible#not built to completely break down every five years so you're forced to keep buying the same (expensive) appliance over and over#so we might as well consider them to be subscription models too#fridges that only take the $52 water filter made by the same company that made the fridge#but not the $15 water filter which is *exactly the same* but is made by a different company#I have a Black & Decker toaster oven from 1991#it continues to function perfectly and I will never replace it if I don't have to#because every toaster oven built today will die at 10% of my Black & Decker's current lifespan#I hate the built-to-fail economy ..."
people have lost the ability to articulate why they disagree. Even if they can say what they want, they don’t know how to say it anymore. Almost no one knows how to hold a conversation because of this and that is why so many people are lonely. (r/DeepThoughts)"
submitted 4 months ago by CultofThings (archived 17 May 2024 10:27:57 UTC)
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friend: I've recently reread Benjamin Studebaker's excellent essay on what he calls the Millennial Left, and how it's basically been not much more than a giant internet meme.
- and more - use e.g. DuckDuckGo, with related terms
Laconic:
oldkidz-newblockz 16 hours ago
cool! it is just brief shorthand! as timelines are literally spectrum, there are places here-and-there, (also it is broad, might have mistakes and biases...) , and i never much didnt specified (visually) the order or era. these are also second-hand XPs...
Links to sections:
1) nerdwebz (bbs) - 80s + 90s,
2) zillenial (mill. + gen-z) - late 90s, y2k, mid-2000s, - think of AdPocalypse, MS Win controversy 2004 F.U.D., net on TV...
3) 2007 positivity - think of frutiger aero, meet the robinsons, jetson retro-futu, "technozen" etc. ... web at the best, between YTP, MLG and cca 2009/2010 (2011-2013) (they all overlap)...
4) 2010 Millenial Net Utopia - millennials taking web by balls - web as (quick) way to make money (late 2007 > 2016s), "eat the rich", it was also 4chan 4lulz, wikileaks/anonymous and aaron schwartz era (with Che Guevara vibes...
looming over in attitude, and somewhat even in graphic design of the era - no one knew if it was (2000s- early/mid 2010s) ironical use, well-meant, confussed, or wtf even... (/ by2012/13 - 2016s, vibes changes again*) );
*/ by this "2nd" era, the mood of 2007/2008 econ-crisis goes even more on-nose, edgy, punk, and it is basically first wave of young people being snark, edgy, smudge and well-rounded in "games those above play" - see gamergate (noble idea, bs exe), occupy wallstreet and wikileaks,... "buying-on-house"
(renting >>>, "beating them-above at their own game") etc. (too 2020/21 angrymen making mini stock-waves) > wakes/waves of (young) pub. consc., not being played with ... ---
final hit being covid era, when and after, the belief in science(-its) & media is all low...
Fig.1 - Illustrations ("Internet Stages"), by Me
