Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
“Going online” is a behavior that evolved over 4 decades of janky modes to what it is now (The WELL began as a VAX machine in 1985 and is now a Madtodon server…?) BBS/AOL-Compuserve-Usenet/We1/Web2/mobile Wonder if “onchain” Will have a similar trajectory. Farcaster = AOL era? L2s = Usenet?
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Ike
@iw
Thats an interesting thought. When did we stop "going online".... now we "go offline" since "online" is the default. No one goes "surfing the web" anymore (a dumb mixed metaphor to begin with) since we are always connected. Do we go "surfing IRL?" Whats a dumb metaphor for that? "Meat Strolling?"
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