"Blogging was not just a thing you did, a solitary practice: it was a thing you took part in; the thing you did was merely a means of entry, a contribution to a collective thing, a complex emergent system." @PaulGrahamRaven https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/you-can-never-step-in-the-same-blog-twice/

// i think nostalgia and realism are less divorced than we sometimes feel. yes, we can't recreate the past, what will be will be new. but what existed in the past is an existence proof, that kind of thing can exist. from the past we know the possible.