Firefox: The Internet You Loved is Still Here

I’m not on Firefox (I’m a Vivaldi user), but I like their browser a lot, and their latest video made me smile. Whilst I didn’t recognise all the memes (the shoes one passed me by?), it was fun to see Where the Hell is Matt, as…well…I’m in the 2012 video. I talked about it on my blog at the time where I confidently announced that I would be in the video and would share it when it goes live. So yes, the video went live 15 years ago. It’s below. I get a weird nostalgic pang watching this video (and I think that’s what the Firefox advert is trying to recreate) as I’m reminded of what life was like those days. I had just moved to Manchester about a year before, and everything seemed fresh, exciting and accessible. You felt you could do anything and every day had something on in tech. This was just a silly viral video, but it felt always like something was happening every day in the city, and you can make whatever you want on the internet, and it would be seen. Anyway, given of what I…