july 13 ugc

I ended last week with a short post I'm still thinking about. That post was about bookmarking, and a bygone era of the internet in which bookmarking played a big and perhaps vital role. I think about things like bookmarking a lot because I think about the internet a lot. I've thought about the internet a lot since at least the early 1990s. Back then I was messing around on bulletin board systems and trying to find other likeminded folks to talk about computers with. Back then there was only really one guy. Sidebar: That guy and I have been friends since 1988. He took me to a Blue Jays game last month. He reads this blog. Anyway, I can't speak to what everyone is talking about when they talk about bAcK wHeN tHe InTeRnEt WaS gOoD, but when I talk about bAcK wHeN tHe InTeRnEt WaS gOoD I'm talking about the pre-surveillance, non-algorithmic internet, which, by extension, necessarily means the internet before social media was the dominant expression of the internet experience. Related:…