Web revival

A long time ago, the world wide web was something amazing. The WWW. www.whatever.com and all of that. It was truly a network of computers, all equal and different, hosting and accessing content. Content was text and images hacked together, mostly.

It was a place of science ⚛ first. Later, when more people joined, it became a place of creativity 🖌. But overall, it was a place of anarchy Ⓐ, and it was amazing.

People made the craziest stuff. Things were built and destroyed, at the same time so ephemeral (and susceptible to link rot).

And then came the democracy. The social networs, making it easier and easier for people to share their ideas online. Which was nice, but, at what price. People didn’t understood the Internet anymore. Ideas became monetizable. Creation of personal brands, the comoditization of content. Internet was not just for the fans and the hobbyists, it was for the creators and influencers.

Truth be told, I was always ahead of my time ⏱. 
  In the worst way. 
    Always so afraid of speaking,
      of participating,
        of not fitting,
          of messing up...

        so I never spoke,
      never wrote,
    never built,
  never created,
never fit

Just a lurker, just an spectator.

And now, look at me. Now I want to create, when most have left. When things start to crumble in the walled gardens, when the Internet has been lost to advertisement, when Internet seems to have died 🕱.

I want to help revive the Internet. Because I lived its golden era… and didn’t seize the moment. Because I need closure, I need to know I put something out there, before its too late.