Soon, if not already, all the facebook grandmas will transition into a cynical 'nothing matters, the world sucks anyways' online mentality, and then if they are still around after that they will hit that early midlife mentality where they understand the shitty parts of the net and can laugh at things that first they bought into and then rebelled against. Sooo many 'old' people are logged on now and while they might be 50+ year olds with 50+ problems, mentally online they have the Internet Ego (Igo) of a 15 year old. I think that is a large part to why the internet is so shitty and manipulatable right now. That shit still exists out there somewhere. My room mate broke up with a girl who stalked him and wrote goth poetry on her Geocities page, we would log in and do long form reviews of it (drunk). Original application of datamoshing required a bit more technical knowledge but. Datamoshing became popular as a visual effect in 2005 and was seen in use during live video sets and in music videos. My shit days are out there on the net somewhere. Datamoshing itself is the process of intentionally damaging or combining the input from two media files to create distortion effects on playback. They have to act the child, then act the teenage, then get put in their place, then maybe they grow up enough and learn to be decent internet citizens. When you first get that heavily connected to people you are a dumbass and an egomaniac.

The following year, a 16-year-old Bo Burnham took to the platform to post the video 'My. I remember the growing pains and the process of 'maturing online' not saying I was maturing while online, but that side of your ego has too, be it 15, 25, or 55. The mystical universe of YouTube was introduced on Valentines Day in 2005. Then Geocities came along and vBoards after that.

I used to log into BBS servers and post about games (mostly Myst). We got internet at the house when I was 16.

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