Listen, I’ll admit I’ve never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.
But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.
Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I’m forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.
We didn’t realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can’t trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.
Listen, I’ll admit I’ve never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.
But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.
Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I’m forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.
We didn’t realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can’t trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.